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.

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Board & Audit Ready

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:

Essential Eight evidence
CIS baseline evidence
Privacy / APP evidence
Student-data protection evidence
Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace evidence
Identity, endpoint, email, backup, and cloud evidence where scoped
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 evidence workflows for higher education providers running certification or assurance programs
Scheduled reports for council, board, department, executive, insurer, or procurement review

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.

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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:

01

collect

02

preserve

03

map

04

report

05

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.

Explore Solutions

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Make it evidence-backed

Registered education providers may qualify for concessional pricing. Ask during your scoping conversation.