Virtru enables secure, compliant communications between teachers, parents, and students to support distance learning initiatives.
Advances in technology have begun to transform education, allowing educators to implement distance learning initiatives that extend the reach of their curriculum beyond the physical classroom. Digital tools allow teachers to tailor learning to students’ personal needs, improve parent communications, and boost internal productivity and efficiency.
While these trends bring significant opportunities for student learning and development, they also carry significant risks. Cloud environments that support eLearning initiatives and digital communications leave sensitive data at risk of exposure, raising concerns regarding privacy and compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) a primary concern.
“Virtru has improved our email security posture pretty dramatically. With security products, you always have to worry about user adoption, but Virtru is so easy to use that this hasn’t been an issue.”
– Mark Dieterich, Director of IT and Security, Brown University
End-to-end encryption prevents unauthorized access to email and files containing sensitive student data to meet FERPA & HIPAA compliance requirements and maintain student privacy.
As sensitive student data is shared across cloud environments, Virtru keeps it secure with persistent protection and lets you govern access throughout the student data lifecycle.
Virtru’s seamless user experience ensures broad adoption. End-to-end encryption and access controls are embedded where teachers, administrators, parents, and other users already work.
“ The administration and IT team believe that something as important as data protection should not be reserved for districts that can afford it. Virtru has filled that inequity gap for us, and that’s so important.”
– Sunshine Miller, Director of Technology, Newfield Central School District
Virtru’s end-to-end encryption streamlines HIPAA and FERPA compliance with the ability to encrypt emails and files shared with teachers, faculty, administrators, parents, and other third parties to keep data private and prevent leaks.
Host your own encryption keys to keep data private and prevent unauthorized access, including by your cloud provider.
Give faculty and administrators easy-to-use data protection, embedded in existing applications.
Avoid complexities of S/MIME with transparent key exchanges that enable easy, secure data sharing with authorized parties and reduced overhead for IT administrators.
Enable seamless access for parents and other authorized recipients, without requiring new accounts, passwords, or software, for sharing workflows that support digital learning initiatives.
Enable secure sharing across departments and with other educational institutions with attribute-based access controls (ABAC).
Control student PII and PHI wherever it’s shared with instant access revocation, expiration, disable forwarding, and document watermarking capabilities.
View who has accessed protected data, when, where, and for how long, to streamline HIPAA and FERPA Audits. Integrate with your SIEM for advanced threat analysis.
Understand and plan for educational needs and connect with your community. Virtru Secure Share equips you to collect the data you need, including:
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EI00063~2021MA
Apr 01, 2021- Mar 31, 2026
R191902
Feb 27, 2020- Apr 30, 2024
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ILTPP-19CT011
May 20, 2019- Mar 01, 2023
MC15-04
Aug 10, 2019- Feb 28, 2025
E-8801-ACESCPS
Oct 20, 2015- Sep 03, 2025
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Apr 01, 2016- May 02, 2025
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