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Last week, ClassLink celebrated the accomplishments of exceptional New Jersey educators at their annual Seaside Celebration for Ed Leaders in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Bringing together educators and thought leaders from across the state—the event gave guests a chance to connect, kick off a new school year, and celebrate their colleagues!

ClassLink, the leading provider of identity and access management products for education, proudly announced today it is participating in the White House’s Secure by Design cybersecurity pledge. ClassLink was among the first cohort of leading edtech organizations invited to make the pledge, which encourages solution providers to prioritize cybersecurity in their products and practices to reduce the cybersecurity burden facing K-12 schools.

Tech & Learning recently named ClassLink the winner of two Best of Show Awards at ISTE 2023. ClassLink won the awards for the complete ClassLink Suite and DataGuard, ClassLink’s newest product designed to empower schools to take control of the data they share with vendors.

Teachers and students are engaging with fewer edtech tools but the diversity of options is forcing CIOs and other educators to manage even more applications than last year, according to the latest EdTech Top 40 list from LearnPlatform by Instructure.

During the pandemic, schools became more reliant on tech than ever. The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech.

Many school districts routinely share class roster data with the ed tech platforms used within classrooms, and that frequently includes Personally Identifiable Information. DataGuard enables IT and technology implementation managers to limit the amount of sensitive data shared by dynamically replacing “key PII fields with meaningless letter scrambles before sending data to a vendor through roster server.

ClassLink, the leading provider of Identity and Access Management products for education, announces the availability of DataGuard, a powerful new tool designed to protect sensitive PII when schools share class roster data with vendor partners.

The results are in — this week ClassLink was awarded three 2023 EdTech Cool Tool Awards from EdTech Digest. The ClassLink Suite was named the winner in the Administrative Solution category. At the same time, ClassLink Analytics+ won in Learning Analytics/Data Mining Solution and New Product or Service (released 2020 or later).

Over the past several months, there have been a number of cybersecurity incidents targeting K12 institutions that have sent a chill down the spines of smaller, less resourceful districts. Three education technology leaders (ClassLink, ENA by Zayo and SecurityStudio) have come together to provide K12 schools with a “groundbreaking,” “free and easy-to-use” cybersecurity rubric designed to help schools assess their security policies and plan for continuous improvement.