Why Student Data Security is Important and How to Protect it

Student Information Systems is one of the top-notch technologies developed to collect and access student data seamlessly. However, this student data should be preserved in a secured network for ultimate protection. 

State laws and guidelines also enforce certain rules to schools and third-party service providers regarding the steps to protect student data. Unfortunately, not all Student Information Systems provide higher protection and maintain those laws.  

Data security is one of the top priorities for MarkersPro. Safety, compliance, and privacy are inherently built-in to our infrastructure, products, and processes to ensure that your data is protected. 

The MarkersPro SIS platform is hosted using Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure and services. With MarkersPro, schools can manage and customize the security boundaries. All our security processes and controls are combined into a single Unified Controls Framework to ensure that all our best practices, contractual obligations, and regulatory/compliance frameworks related to security are holistically tracked and managed. 

Under FERPA, teachers, executives, recorders, and other school representatives in the United States are liable for securing the privacy and information of students that go through their hands. If an educator, who is a delegate of the school, does not secure the data of a student’s instructive records as laid out in the law, the instructor and the school may face severe consequences. Revealing a student’s academic marks to other students can appear to be an offense or misconduct under FERPA. 

The Role-based access control RBAC is used to control access and give permissions to the user associated with the school and based on their school role. With RBAC, school administrators can customize each profile, whether the student, parent, or staff are able to access in MarkersPro Student Information System. The RBAC restricts the breaching of sensitive student and school information.    

For every school, the significance of guarding student data is vital to surviving in the education industry. Securing student data, and abiding by laws, and ethics is a top priority for MarkersPro.