Education
Evidence infrastructure for education
Schools, TAFEs, and universities hold some of the most sensitive personal data in Australia. Staff, students, researchers, administrators, and service providers are now using AI faster than most education policies were designed to handle. APEXLyn helps education providers make security posture, privacy controls, and AI governance evidence-backed.
The problem
Education providers manage student records, health information, family data, staff information, research IP, assessment material, identity systems, and third-party platforms, often with small IT and governance teams.
At the same time, AI has entered classrooms, staff rooms, research workflows, administration, and student-support processes. Academic integrity, student data in AI tools, research confidentiality, and staff AI use are now live risks. Funding reviews, cyber insurance, board reporting, department questionnaires, and privacy obligations increasingly require evidence, not just policies or screenshots.
Attest for education
Attest helps education providers collect and preserve evidence for security posture, privacy, cyber insurance, board reporting, and compliance review.
Education use cases may include:
Trace for education
Trace helps education providers govern AI usage and preserve AI governance evidence where enabled and lawfully configured.
Education use cases may include:
• AI use discovery and internal AI inventory
• Staff AI policy enforcement
• Evidence-backed AI governance reporting
• Detection of risky AI activity involving sensitive or confidential information
• Evidence context for academic-integrity processes where appropriate and lawfully configured
• Support for research-data governance workflows
• Legal hold where entitled and contracted
Trace must not be positioned as student surveillance. Student monitoring must not be claimed unless the use case is lawfully configured, technically implemented, and included in the contracted scope.
Frameworks and evidence areas
Frameworks and evidence areas may include:
Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles
Essential Eight
CIS Benchmarks
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for higher education assurance programs where scoped
Cyber insurance evidence
AI governance reporting
Procurement and board reporting evidence
Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, identity, endpoint, backup, email, and cloud evidence sources where scoped
How it works
Education evidence follows the standard APEXLyn evidence flow:
collect
preserve
map
report
verify
Evidence is collected from connected systems where configured, preserved in the evidence ledger, mapped to selected frameworks or evidence outcomes, reported for the relevant review audience, and supported by report verification where enabled.
For multi-campus or multi-entity education providers, evidence scope can be structured by school, campus, faculty, business unit, tenant, or operating entity where scoped.
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Make it evidence-backed
Registered education providers may qualify for concessional pricing. Ask during your scoping conversation.