Recently, our internal customer advocate wrote about El Paso Independent School District using Palisade Systems PacketSure for their data loss prevention needs. Today, the press release was sent out over the Wire to various educational and security reporters, touting the relationship between Palisade and EPISD.

It is a testament to our internal staff that we have long-standing customers like EPISD using our products, and having the confidence in our products to continue to use us as we grow with their security needs. With the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), school districts around the nation had to begin thinking beyond the basic IT structure of security but beyond: how to keep data secure and make sure that information was not accidentally (or, in the case of student-athletes, purposely) leaked or lost to the vapor. 

When EPISD set up a security assessment from Palisade, they got to see first hand the information being sent out, data that was being captured in their test of the PacketSure application. It is this data that FERPA is concerned with, a pillar in our compliance to help school districts stay on the right side of the Act and protect students, administrators, teachers and staff.

 We are happy to be working with EPISD and help keep them secure. We look forward to continuing to work with school districts, and helping new districts be DLP safe.