FERPA – Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

Make audits a breeze. Protect sensitive data of all students and staff with PII Tools.


Where?
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA, or the Buckley Amendment) applies to any educational agency or institution, such as a private or public school, that receives funds under an applicable program of the US Department of Education.
Why?
Because it’s a federal law. Because it gives parents and their children control over how their sensitive data is disclosed. And because it’s simply the right thing to do.
What?
FERPA defines “Student education records” as any records maintained by an educational agency or institution that contain information directly related to a student. Examples include dates and places of birth, grades, or disciplinary records.
Where?
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA, or the Buckley Amendment) applies to any educational agency or institution, such as a private or public school, that receives funds under an applicable program of the US Department of Education.
Why?
Because it’s a federal law. Because it gives parents and their children control over how their sensitive data is disclosed. And because it’s simply the right thing to do.
What?
FERPA defines “Student education records” as any records maintained by an educational agency or institution that contain information directly related to a student. Examples include dates and places of birth, grades, or disciplinary records.

How PII Tools helps with FERPA

360° Data Discovery
Discover personal and sensitive data in every file, email, and database across all endpoints, file servers and cloud environments. Scan all your accounts and perform customized searches for specific information such as student ID numbers.
  • Single price for unlimited data volume
  • Automatic risk classification
  • Built-in remediation and quarantine of unwanted files
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The Right To Inspect, Review, And Correct
Instantly find every record about a specific student in your entire inventory, including the exact file locations. You can easily share the records with students and their parents, and amend any specific information in the documents in real time.
  • Custom PII searches
  • Instant results
  • Reporting and data exports
Mailbox Scanning
Find PII across all user mailboxes, including data from PDF or image attachments. The Incremental Scan feature makes delta scanning easier because you don’t have to re-scan the entire mailbox every time. Simply set the schedule to “only analyze new emails”.
  • Exchange Online, MBOX, PST, OST
  • Precise PII locations and risk profiles
  • Automatic AI detection of email footers and signatures
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Auditing & Data Breach Management
The first step to mitigate the damage is to identify what was breached: all affected persons and their breached PII, PCI, and PHI. PII Tools helps incident response teams find the leaked personal data in seconds and at a minimal cost.
  • Preparation for audits
  • Quick detection of breached PII with the "Affected Persons" report
  • Surgical remediation & audit logs

Manage FERPA requirements with PII Tools

Our clients use PII Tools to manage FERPA requirements and other regulations, such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR.

Clients worldwide use PII Tools to deal with audits & compliance effectively.

Manage FERPA requirements with PII Tools

Our clients use PII Tools to comply with GDPR as well as other regulations, like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or LGPD.

Our clients use PII Tools to manage FERPA requirements and other regulations, such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR.
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Our customers say…

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Raul Diaz

Senior Director, IT

“A manual data review would take us years and years, which was not an option. PII Tools provides us with a full report wherever there is any PII on our Sharepoint, GSuite, Microsoft Exchange, Salesforce, and physical devices.”
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Built for the education industry

To help all the underfunded InfoSec teams working in the education industry, we built PII Tools to be the most easy-to-use and affordable data discovery solution.
To help all the underfunded InfoSec teams working in the education industry, we built PII Tools to be the most easy-to-use and affordable data discovery solution.