The edtech and education communities were rocked by the PowerSchool breach that was disclosed in January. The breach was one of the biggest ever in the industry, impacting more than 60 million people worldwide. Consequently, students, parents, and school districts are all rightfully concerned about whether their data is safe, what they should do now, and whether they can trust the organizations with whom they work to provide curriculum.

Protecting PII Is Top Priority

All of us who work in education technology and in the K-12 setting must work together to prevent a similar breach from occurring. This means that a culture of zero-trust must be established throughout your entire district or organization. It means heightening your vigilance by providing adequate and ongoing training and support for your staff. And you must demand that everyone who connects to your network uses multi-factor authentication – a key step that might have prevented the PowerSchool breach.

Lumen Touch Is Secure

Not only does Lumen Touch have a comprehensive data backup and recovery plan, but we provide seven unique internal security layers which a district can manage. Our seven layers of security include:

• Full HIPAA and FERPA compliance
• SSL certificates
• Journals user access
• Journals user applications access
• Journals user records access
• Multi–user system data loss prevention
• Inherent record locking feature

These security layers help ensure compliance and maintenance of data integrity with little administrative oversight, secure remote access through portals, remote update from original data source, large file and directory processing capability, and secure disk storage.

Lumen Touch and School Passport

In order to elevate the security of our all-in-one enterprise management system even further, we have taken additional measures to help you protect student data. We know integration has become a vital part of your district processes, so we have partnered with SchoolDay (formerly Global Grid for Learning) in order to provide you with a cutting-edge zero-trust ecosystem orchestration platform that will allow vendor integration with greater stability and scalability.  As a part of this partnership, all Lumen Touch customers will have access to the SchoolDay Enterprise Edition.

If you’re worried about the security of your data and believe that now might be the time to switch your all-in-one enterprise management system, Lumen Touch helps make the process easy. Contact us today to learn more about how Lumen Touch can make a difference for your school.