SecureDB for Education
Protect Every Student. Secure Every Record.
SecureDB delivers persistent, policy-driven protection for student records, financial aid data and research information across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments—without disrupting teaching and learning.
Persistent Data Protection
Encrypt student PII, grades and financial aid data at rest and in use.
Granular Access Control
Enforce least-privilege access for faculty, staff, administrators and vendors.
Real-Time Policy Enforcement
Protect sensitive student data the moment it is queried.
Comprehensive Visibility
Audit-ready logs and reporting for compliance offices, auditors and boards.
OnData integrates at the data layer—securing student and institutional data in motion and at rest across student information, learning management, financial aid and analytics systems without requiring changes to applications or business processes.
Most schools, districts and universities already have important security controls in place. Teams encrypt storage volumes. They use encrypted connections. They manage user permissions. They secure student and staff portals. They monitor infrastructure. These are necessary controls, but they do not always protect sensitive values such as student IDs, Social Security numbers, grades, disciplinary records and financial aid information once authorized systems, privileged accounts or downstream workflows can access the data.
The risk increases when education data moves beyond the student information system. Records may be copied into a data warehouse, shared with EdTech vendors, sent through an ETL pipeline, replicated to a state reporting database or exported into a staging environment. Development and quality assurance teams may need realistic data to test student-facing applications. Institutional researchers may need to correlate outcomes across terms and programs without direct visibility into individual student records. Compliance teams may need to show auditors and regulators that student data is protected consistently under requirements such as FERPA, GLBA for financial aid data and state student privacy laws.
SecureDB helps educational institutions protect sensitive database fields before those movements create exposure.
SecureDB uses OnData's patented runtime encryption and access management technology to protect sensitive education data beyond the traditional boundaries of data-at-rest and data-in-transit encryption. Student PII, academic records and financial aid data can remain encrypted while moving through student information systems, learning platforms, ETL pipelines, data warehouses and analytics environments.
Authorized users and applications can access the original data when policy allows. Unauthorized users, compromised accounts or downstream systems without explicit permission cannot view meaningful sensitive values. This helps K-12 districts, colleges and universities reduce the impact of a breach while preserving the ability to support students, share data with approved partners and analyze outcomes safely.
