PowerSchool Joins White House K-12 Education Technology Secure by Design Pledge & Announces New Commitments to Education Ecosystem Security
07 Agosto 2023 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
PowerSchool joins the pledge and announces new
commitments to protect student data security & privacy across
the education technology ecosystem
PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based
software for K-12 education in North America, today announced it is
joining the K-12 Education Technology Secure by Design Pledge, a
voluntary pledge for K-12 education technology software
manufacturers, developed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency (CISA) and the U.S. Department of Education.
PowerSchool also announced new commitments to further secure the
education technology ecosystem by offering free and subsidized
security-as-a-service resources to all U.S. schools and
districts.
“Our primary mission is to personalize education for every
student and that journey starts with our responsibility to protect
and safeguard the over 45 million students we serve today in the
U.S.,” said Hardeep Gulati, CEO of PowerSchool. “That is why we
have made significant investments in cybersecurity and successfully
defend our districts against over 1 billion cyber-attacks each
year. We are honored to sign this pledge and even provide
additional free and subsidized security-as-a-service trainings,
tools, and resources to support and enable all U.S. school
districts to fight against cybersecurity threats.”
As part of First Lady Jill Biden’s Back to School Safely:
Cybersecurity Summit for K-12 Schools event on August 7th, 2023,
PowerSchool CEO Hardeep Gulati will highlight PowerSchool’s
cybersecurity leadership and initiatives including cloud
infrastructure security, cyber defense, and governance risk and
compliance, that secure over 80% of the school districts across all
U.S. states, including 90 of the top 100 districts by student
population.
“Let’s face it: in today’s digital age, our students and their
teachers will increasingly use technology in the classroom. Schools
have access to more devices and connectivity than ever before, and
this technology in education has incredible potential to help
students better connect with their learning and achieve, and
teachers better engage with their students,” said U.S. Secretary of
Education Miguel Cardona. “But to make the most of these benefits,
we must effectively manage the risks. Just as we expect everyone in
a school system to plan and prepare for physical risks, we must now
also ensure everyone helps plan and prepare for digital risks in
our schools and classrooms. The Department of Education has
listened to the field about the importance of K-12 cybersecurity,
and today we are coming together to recognize this and indicate our
next steps.”
PowerSchool already adheres to several commitments outlined in
the pledge, including offering single sign-on for free to
customers, providing audit logs to any customer upon request,
maintaining a published vulnerability disclosure policy
administered by an independent third party, and embracing
vulnerability transparency by openly engaging with customers on
vulnerabilities, threats, and risks the company identifies.
PowerSchool is also taking additional steps to provide
industry-leading cybersecurity support to educational institutions.
This includes offering free and subsidized security-as-a-service
resources, including on-demand webinars, toolkits, and trainings to
U.S. schools and districts, as well as offerings from partners
including Abnormal Security, Amazon Web Services, and KnowBe4.
These resources will be available to any U.S. school or district,
regardless of their customer status.
“Keeping our students and our schools safe from cyberattacks
comes down to equipping schools with three things – knowledge,
resources, and people,” said Anne Neuberger, Deputy National
Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies. “This week,
the White House worked to do just that – mobilizing funding,
cybersecurity fact guides tailored for schools, and cybersecurity
teams to visit schools and help them fight ransomware. We
appreciate the innovative and meaningful private sector commitments
in this ransomware fight, as we work together to keep kids
cyber-safe online and in schools.”
PowerSchool’s significant investment in advanced security
technologies, including static and dynamic code scanning,
best-of-breed Web Application Firewalls, and more than 30 annual
penetration tests, reinforces its unwavering commitment to
providing unparalleled protection and trust to districts and
schools. As a signatory of the Student Privacy Pledge 2020,
PowerSchool adheres to all applicable state, province, and federal
regulations and goes beyond those by independently verifying its
security management system annually to third-party audited,
internationally recognized standards for security management
systems, achieving the ISO:27001 certification and SOC2 Type 2 –
the gold standard data security certification for business service
providers. PowerSchool is also partnered with the Consortium for
School Networking (COSN) on their recently rolled-out K-12
Community Vendor Assessment Tool (K-12CVAT) and is an active
partner of 1EdTech, focusing on industry standards,
interoperability, and data privacy and security best practices.
PowerSchool products have been vetted and certified as TrustEd Apps
by 1Edtech, based on the organization's rigorous data and privacy
rubric.
For more information on PowerSchool’s security, visit
https://www.powerschool.com/security/.
About PowerSchool
PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC) is the leading provider of cloud-based
software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to
power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps
educators and students realize their full potential, in their way.
PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and
parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From
the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and
districts efficiently manage state reporting and related
compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent,
registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading,
assessments, and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool
supports over 50 million students globally and more than 15,000
customers, including more than 90 of the top 100 districts by
student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in
more than 90 countries. Visit www.powerschool.com to learn
more.
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