Industries — Higher Education

AWS Environments Built for Campus and Research

Institutions and the vendors who sell to them. Environments that clear a HECVAT, hold up to a Department of Education audit, and keep a CUI research award from reshaping the whole campus.

Why Higher Education Is Different

Security review gates the sale

Institutions send a HECVAT before they buy, and the infrastructure and hosting sections carry most of the questions. Vendors who cannot answer them from a live environment wait while procurement stalls behind the questionnaire.

One campus, several regimes

Student records fall under FERPA, financial aid data pulls in GLBA, a medical school adds HIPAA, and a federally funded research award can bring NIST 800-171 onto the same network as everything else.

Research awards arrive with flow-downs

A single CUI award carries DFARS obligations onto a campus whose central IT was designed for open collaboration, and the award has a start date either way.

What We Deliver

We do federal compliance work and higher education work with the same people, which is what a research security problem calls for.

HECVAT-Ready Environments

Hosting, access control, logging, encryption, and continuity built so the infrastructure sections answer themselves. We complete those sections from your live environment and keep the answers current as it changes.

Segregated Research Enclaves

CUI research environments built to the same standard as our federal work, separated from general campus infrastructure. A new award lands in a ready enclave instead of triggering a re-architecture.

Student & Financial Data Controls

FERPA access control, audit logging, retention and deletion, and the GLBA Safeguards implementation a Department of Education audit examines. Evidence collected as the environment runs.

State Authorization Support

TX-RAMP and StateRAMP environments for vendors selling into public institutions, mapped from the same control implementation as the federal baselines.

What We Build Against

We design and evidence the environment. Certification and authorization stay with you and your assessor.

HECVAT
Infrastructure and hosting sections
FERPA
Student education records
GLBA Safeguards Rule
Financial aid data
NIST SP 800-171
CUI in federally funded research
DFARS 252.204-7012
Research subaward flow-downs
TX-RAMP & StateRAMP
State authorization programmes

Related work

Stuck behind a HECVAT, or holding a CUI award?

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