How does Summit Public Schools help keep student data secure?

Some of the ways that Summit Public Schools (Summit) helps keep student data secure include:

• Hosting student data on physically secure servers
• Encrypting student data in transit and at rest
• Limiting who can access student data
• Not storing any passwords inside our system (any credentials we do have are encrypted and not stored in plain text)
• Continuously monitoring student data for unusual access or activity
• Conducting regular internal security audits
• Backing up student data daily
• Requiring third parties to comply with our privacy policy and security commitments
• Comprehensively testing new functionalities
• Conducting independent risk assessments
• Preventing unauthorized access through initiatives like single sign-on and multi-factor authentication