Industries · United States
Education
FERPA and safeguarding students, staff and research. ORCA Opti brings your risks, controls and AI governance into one living system of record, inside your Safe Zone.
Regulation
Frameworks built in
ORCA Opti ships with the frameworks US customers and auditors ask about, and keeps your evidence audit-ready.
SOC 2
SOC 2
Continuous evidence and audit-readiness for the report your customers ask for.
NIST CSF
NIST CSF
Cyber maturity against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, with every control owned and evidenced.
NIST SP 800-53
NIST SP 800-53
The control catalogue behind US federal security programs, with each control tracked, tested and evidenced.
CIS Controls
CIS Controls
Prioritised baseline safeguards, tracked against your own implementation.
PCI DSS
PCI DSS
Cardholder data controls across payments, tracked and evidenced.
ISO 27001
ISO 27001
Information security management, pre-mapped to your controls.
ISO/IEC 27701
ISO/IEC 27701
Privacy information management, with privacy impact assessments over your data processing.
AI governance (ISO/IEC 42001)
AI governance (ISO/IEC 42001)
Responsible, accountable AI, with an AI system inventory and impact assessments managed against ISO/IEC 42001.
For Education
See ORCA Opti for U.S. Education
K-12 districts, community colleges and major university systems face FERPA enforcement, the state student-privacy patchwork, COPPA for under-13 services and a global ransomware wave that has put education in the top five most-attacked sectors. ORCA Opti gives institutions, edtech and research labs one program — student trust, accreditor evidence and ransomware readiness in one place.
FERPA-ready, accreditor-ready
FERPA-ready, accreditor-ready
FERPA student records, state student-privacy laws and regional accreditor evidence in a living quality and security program.
Student and research data in the Safe Zone
Student and research data in the Safe Zone
Student PII, research IP and exam systems inside the Safe Zone, with AI Guardian blocking leakage to consumer AI tools.
Ed-tech procurement-ready
Ed-tech procurement-ready
Aligned to the Common Education Data Standards procurement language and state student-data privacy contract addenda.
Governed AI for learning and operations
Governed AI for learning and operations
Run AI for tutoring, grading, admissions and research with the audit trail OCR, FERPA and parents expect.
The pressure
What CIOs and provosts face
Ransomware in K-12 and higher-ed, state attorneys general actively enforcing privacy, and AI in every learning and research workflow.
Ransomware in K-12 and higher-ed
Ransomware in K-12 and higher-ed
Education has been a top-five most-attacked sector for three years. Closed districts, canceled classes and exposed records keep making the front page.
State AG privacy enforcement
State AG privacy enforcement
State attorneys general now actively enforce student-data and consumer-privacy laws against districts and universities, with multi-million-dollar resolutions.
Research IP and grant exposure
Research IP and grant exposure
Patentable research, grant-funded work and dual-use research can leak to external AI tools in a single careless prompt.
COPPA and minor consent
COPPA and minor consent
Edtech and digital tools used by under-13 learners trigger COPPA, school-consent and state law obligations.
Frameworks built in
Federal, state and international standards
ORCA Opti ships with the obligations U.S. education actually faces. Controls pre-mapped, evidence structured and reporting current.
FERPA & PPRA
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act plus Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment mapped to controls and management review.
State student-data privacy
California SOPIPA, New York Education Law 2-d and the wider state student-data privacy patchwork mapped to a single program.
COPPA & GLBA-FSA
COPPA for under-13 services and the FSA/GLBA Safeguards Rule mappings for student financial information.
ISO 27001 & ISO 21001
Information security plus the educational organizations management system, mapped alongside academic governance.
Accreditor evidence
Regional accreditor evidence (HLC, SACSCOC, WSCUC, MSCHE, NECHE, NWCCU) and Title IV federal-aid records held in one program.
NIST AI RMF & state AI laws
AI Risk Management Framework and emerging state AI-in-education laws integrated with admissions, learning and research workflows.
See ORCA Opti for Education in United States.
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