Education

Advanced Data Protection for Student, Research and Staff Data

Schools, colleges and universities hold student records, financial aid data, health information and research, and share it constantly across departments, faculty, students and outside partners.

FERPA, GLBA for financial aid, HIPAA for campus health services and state student privacy laws require institutions to protect that data, often with small security teams and open, decentralized IT environments.

Advanced Data Protection
In The Age of AI

Industry security solutions tailored to your needs

Eliminates blind spots

100% autonomous coverage across every
actor, every channel, every threat vector.

Award winning
DLEP solution

GC Cybersecurity’s ISE™ (Information Security Enforcer) is the “Best of Breed” Data Leak and Exfiltration Prevention solution.

Prevents accidental
or malicious activities

Regulated industries face severe challenges in Data Leak Prevention (DLP) and Data Privacy Compliance

Key features for Education

01

Automated Classification of Student and Research Data

ISE identifies and classifies student records, financial aid documents and research data in motion, and applies real-time policies based on how sensitive the data is.

02

Available Through the TIPS Cooperative Contract

Public schools, colleges and universities can buy ISE through TIPS Contract 260105, which shortens procurement and removes the need for a separate bid.

03

CASB – Cloud and Web Application Security

As more sensitive content moves to the cloud and key applications move to the web, sensitive information has to be protected at every moment. Precise cloud and web security policies and automated classification cover operations from start to finish.

04

Built for Lean Security Teams

ISE deploys without infrastructure changes and synthesizes policies automatically, so smaller IT and security teams get enterprise-grade protection without writing and maintaining rules by hand.

Use Cases

Protect against Gen AI data leaks by insiders
Protect against email-based data exfiltrations by malicious insiders
Protect against malware and ransomware-based data exfiltrations
Auto-classification of sensitive structured or unstructured data-in-motion
Protect against accidental or malicious large, sensitive file transfers
Automated cyberSOC-powered data detection and remediation
Challenge

Generative AI’s increasing access within enterprises creates significant risk of sensitive data leaks through authorized users inadvertently or intentionally sharing proprietary information with external AI systems

Solution

Automated data protection system monitors and analyzes user interactions with Deep-AI tools, using real-time recognition and domain aware policies to detect, prevent, and alert enterprises to potential data leakages before sensitive information leaves secure environments

Benefit

Enterprises can confidently embrace GEN-AI technologies while maintaining regulatory compliance, protecting intellectual property, preventing reputational damage, and reducing security team burden through automated detection and prevention that works transparently without disrupting legitimate user workflows

Challenge

Malicious insiders exploit their legitimate access to exfiltrate sensitive data via email channels, bypassing traditional security controls and causing significant financial, reputational, and compliance damage

Solution

Automated and advanced e-mail data protection systems employ Deep-AI, behavioral analytics, and information classification to detect suspicious patterns, unauthorized transfers, and policy violations in real-time before sensitive data leaves the enterprise

Benefit

Enterprises gain continuous protection against insider threats with minimal false positives, maintain regulatory compliance, protect intellectual property, prevent data breaches, and reduce security team workload through accurate automated detection that stops data loss while allowing legitimate business email communications to continue unimpeded

Challenge

Malware and ransomware now steal sensitive data before they encrypt systems, using compromised endpoints and legitimate channels to move data out of the enterprise without triggering traditional perimeter defenses

Solution

Automated data protection classifies sensitive data-in-motion in real time and detects abnormal exfiltration from compromised hosts and processes, blocking unauthorized transfers before data leaves the environment, whatever channel the malware uses

Benefit

Enterprises achieve dramatically improved resilience against evolving cyber threats, significantly reduced attack surface, minimized data breach impact, faster incident response times, continuous regulatory compliance, and preserved business continuity without overwhelming security teams or disrupting legitimate business operations

Challenge

Enterprises struggle to identify and protect massive volumes of diverse sensitive data moving across networks, applications, and user devices, leaving critical information vulnerable to breaches and compliance violations. Simple manual Keyword and Lexical Matches are error prone resulting in high False Positives and are highly susceptible to Malicious Data Leak scenarios

Solution

Automated classification systems leverage DEEP-AI, and domain-aware pattern recognition to accurately identify, categorize, and tag sensitive structured and unstructured data-in-motion, in any format, in real-time without human intervention, enabling immediate policy enforcement before information reaches unauthorized destinations

Benefit

Enterprises achieve comprehensive visibility into data flows, maintain continuous regulatory compliance, reduce security team burden, prevent costly data breaches, enable granular access controls, and support informed business decisions through precise risk awareness without impacting legitimate data transfers or user productivity

Challenge

Enterprises face significant risks when employees accidentally or maliciously transfer large sensitive files through unauthorized channels, bypassing security controls and potentially causing data breaches, compliance violations, and intellectual property loss

Solution

Automated file transfer protection systems continuously monitor network traffic, file repositories, and communication channels to detect unusual file movements, classify sensitive data in real-time, and enforce granular policies that block unauthorized transfers while allowing legitimate business operations

Benefit

Enterprises gain comprehensive protection against data loss without burdening security teams, maintain regulatory compliance, preserve intellectual property, prevent costly breaches, reduce incident response time, and maintain business productivity by stopping only truly risky transfers while allowing approved workflows to continue unimpeded

Challenge

Modern enterprises struggle with fragmented security systems that generate overwhelming alerts without domain context, leading to detection gaps, delayed remediation of data security incidents, and increased risk of breaches despite significant security investments

Solution

Automated cyberSOC-powered platforms integrate Deep-AI-driven analytics, comprehensive visibility across environments, and orchestrated response capabilities to detect sensitive data violations in real-time, prioritize actual threats, and automatically implement remediation actions based on security policies

Benefit

Enterprises achieve dramatically faster threat detection and response times, reduced security team burnout, continuous compliance with evolving regulations, minimized data breach impacts, improved security ROI, and comprehensive protection across hybrid environments while maintaining business operations through intelligent, context-aware automated remediation workflows

Challenge

Generative AI’s increasing access within enterprises creates significant risk of sensitive data leaks through authorized users inadvertently or intentionally sharing proprietary information with external AI systems.

Solution

Automated data protection system monitors and analyzes user interactions with Deep-AI tools, using real-time recognition and domain aware policies to detect, prevent, and alert enterprises to potential data leakages before sensitive information leaves secure environments.

Benefit

Enterprises can confidently embrace GEN-AI technologies while maintaining regulatory compliance, protecting intellectual property, preventing reputational damage, and reducing security team burden through automated detection and prevention that works transparently without disrupting legitimate user workflows.

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