The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 governs the privacy of student educational records in the United States. According to the US Department of Education, this federal law applies to all schools receiving funds under the department's applicable program.
EventLog Analyzer, a log analysis and management software, helps simplify FERPA compliance with its focus on the protection of educational records. It streamlines tracking and auditing access to student records, making educational record management simple and secure. Using predefined correlation rules, EventLog Analyzer identifies threats and ensures data privacy with compliance-ready templates, supporting your institution's commitment to student data privacy.
With EventLog Analyzer, you can track the usage of removable devices by collecting, monitoring, and analyzing server and workstation logs from a single console. Based on the collected logs, EventLog Analyzer generates detailed graphical reports, providing insights into each instance of USB usage within the network and into the operations conducted using these removable disks. In addition to generating reports, EventLog Analyzer alerts you in real time whenever a removable device is used for a data transfer.
EventLog Analyzer offers comprehensive database auditing, monitoring access to confidential student records stored on database servers. By collecting and analyzing database server logs, EventLog Analyzer generates reports that help you monitor database logons, queries executed on the database, changes made to the database, permission changes, SQL injection attacks, DoS attacks, and more. Get real-time alerts via email and SMS when any suspicious activity occurs on your database server.
Detect security threats accurately and identify attack patterns with EventLog Analyzer's threat intelligence and event correlation capabilities. With over 30 prebuilt correlation rules, a custom correlation builder, and dynamically updated threat feeds, our compliance solution helps you detect cyberattacks at the earliest stages. You can also find exhaustive reports on specific attacks, with details on the entry point, involved user, severity level, source, and event ID. This wealth of information helps you take swift remediation measures to avoid full-scale attacks.
Detect web server attacks and get notified in real time by auditing Microsoft IIS web server logs, FTP server logs, and Apache web server logs using EventLog Analyzer. This versatile FERPA compliance software provides detailed reports on error events (e.g., client and server errors), password changes, HTTP bad requests, and security attacks (e.g., SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and DoS). You can also monitor uploaded, downloaded, and deleted files on the IIS and Unix FTP servers using FTP server reports.
| FERPA requirement | What is it? | Predefined reports in EventLog Analyzer |
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| Section 99.31 (a)(1)(ii) | Ensure compliance by using reasonable methods in educational record management, like monitoring and limiting access to only those with legitimate interests, for student data privacy and personal data protection. |
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Collect, parse, analyze, and archive logs from any device in your network. Monitor network activities with built-in graphical reports and get real-time alerts when any security threat is detected.
Learn moreThe use of encryption, hashing, and time-stamping not only ensures the safety and reliability of student data but also facilitates efficient data retrieval and loading into the product.
Learn moreProtect students' educational records by efficiently auditing database and web server activities with EventLog Analyzer. It supports over 750 log sources, including Microsoft SQL Server databases, MySQL databases, Oracle databases, Apache web servers, and IIS web servers.
Audit changes made to sensitive files and folders with real-time, in-depth, graphical reports and intuitive dashboards. Customize compliance reports for internal audits, analyze logs comprehensively, and get real-time alerts when suspicious events are detected.
With over 30 predefined correlation rules, EventLog Analyzer's correlation engine identifies suspicious attack patterns in your network and notifies you immediately. With EventLog Analyzer's correlation reports, detect prominent threats, including brute-force, database, and web server attacks, including malicious URL requests, SQL injection attempts, and DDoS.
With EventLog Analyzer's incident response workflows, perform quick, responsive actions, like disabling compromised accounts or terminating processes, when a suspicious event is detected.
By utilizing the latest threat information obtained from open-source and commercial threat feeds, EventLog Analyzer detects and mitigates malicious IP sources and URLs.
This federal law known as FERPA is essential for all educational institutions managing educational record systems that contain sensitive student data. Any institution receiving funding from specific US Department of Education programs must adhere to it, ensuring student data privacy and personal data protection. Compliance software is often used for efficient record and data privacy monitoring as well as accurate compliance reporting.
Education records include any records, files, documents, and other materials that contain information directly related to a student and are maintained by an educational institution.
Our solutions undergo rigorous third-party audits to ensure compliance with the same global security and privacy standards we help you achieve.
