Solution · K-12 Schools & Districts

K-12. Most-attacked sector after healthcare. Least budget.

Safeguard ships a free tier for accredited K-12 districts. FERPA-mapped controls, EdTech vendor SBOM monitoring, board-ready reports, classroom AI guardrails. Because districts shouldn't have to choose between teachers and tooling.

Free
Tier for districts
FERPA
Pre-mapped
MOVEit-aware
Vendor watch
<4h
Parent breach SLA

Industry pressures.

K-12 is the most-attacked sector after healthcare

Districts run on slim budgets, decade-old code, and dozens of EdTech vendors. The attack frequency is brutal, and the consequences hit children's records.

FERPA / COPPA / state K-12 laws

Federal student-data laws plus a patchwork of state K-12 cyber rules (NY SHIELD, CA AB 2273, etc). Compliance is mandatory; the budget for compliance isn't.

Vendor breaches cascade across districts

SIS vendors and EdTech SaaS aggregate millions of student records. One vendor breach affects thousands of districts simultaneously.

Parent + board pressure

Parents expect transparency. Boards expect protection. Neither expects 'we couldn't afford security tooling' as the answer.

How Safeguard fits.

Free tier for accredited districts

Safeguard ships a no-cost tier for accredited K-12 districts. SBOM ingest, vendor monitoring, FERPA-mapped controls, free.

EdTech vendor SBOM ingestion

Every EdTech vendor SBOM that your district uses is verified, monitored, and re-scanned daily. Drift surfaces as an alert.

Student-data classification on-device

Lino on-device classifies student PII before it leaves the district network. No PII enters cloud inference paths.

Board-level reporting templates

Monthly board readout templates ready to go. Show parents and the board what's protected, what's at risk, and what's been done.

Compliance alignment.

FERPA
COPPA
NY SHIELD
CA AB 2273
CIPA
SLCGP grant alignment
ISO 27001
State K-12 cyber laws

Reference architecture.

Step 01

District control plane

Per-district tenant. Cross-district queries explicitly forbidden. Free tier covers the standard accredited district.

Step 02

EdTech vendor SBOM ingest

Every vendor SBOM verified at intake and re-scanned daily. KEV alerts in your inbox before the news cycle.

Step 03

Parent + board portal

Read-only portal for parents and the board. Monthly auto-generated security posture readout.

Step 04

State / SLCGP grant evidence

Auto-prepared evidence packets for CISA grants, state K-12 cyber funds, and FERPA audits.

Where the risk lives today.

SIS vendor ransomware

Student information system ransomware (PowerSchool-class) cascades across districts simultaneously. Vendor SBOM monitoring catches it early.

EdTech vendor breach

Illuminate-class breaches expose millions of student records. Continuous vendor scrutiny + KEV alerts move the response window.

MOVEit-class vendor compromise

File-transfer vendor breaches keep happening. Vendor concentration mapping shows which of your EdTech vendors share the same upstream.

Classroom AI prompt injection by students

Students will jailbreak any AI tool you give them. MCP-server inspection + Lino on egress prevent sensitive-data leakage.

Current threat landscape.

SIS-vendor ransomware (PowerSchool-class)

Critical student information system compromised at the vendor.

We address this through

EdTech vendor breach (Illuminate-class)

Multi-district student-record exposure via shared EdTech vendor.

We address this through

MOVEit-class file-transfer compromise

Vendor file-transfer software exploited; downstream district data exposed.

We address this through

Classroom AI prompt-injection abuse

Students bypassing AI guardrails or exfiltrating sensitive data via prompts.

We address this through

Parent-portal credential stuffing

Re-used credentials hitting district parent portals at scale.

We address this through

Quantified benefits.

MetricBefore SafeguardWith Safeguard
FERPA audit prep6 weeks1 day
EdTech vendor monitoringQuarterlyContinuous
Ransomware-readiness drillYearlyQuarterly
Tools across the district5 vendors1 (free)
Parent disclosure prepManualAutomated
Alert noise reductionBaseline↓ 75%
Cyber-grant evidence prep4 weeks4 hours

Protect the student record.