Security leadership · Education & EdTech
Fractional CISO for Education & EdTech
An accountable security leader who owns risk, satisfies the regulator, and unblocks the deal — part-time.
Why it matters in education & edtech
You're handling children's data and often sit inside safeguarding-critical workflows. Schools, trusts and universities buy on trust — and increasingly won't sign until you can evidence that your platform is secure and compliant.
- →Protecting children's data under UK GDPR and the Age-Appropriate Design (Children's) Code
- →Passing school, multi-academy trust and university security and data-protection due diligence to win deals
- →Meeting the DfE's cyber security standards for schools and wider safeguarding expectations
- →Turning AI features into something schools can adopt safely — with the right guardrails around minors
What you get
- ✓Security strategy and a risk-led, prioritised improvement plan
- ✓Governance: policies, risk register, and a working risk committee
- ✓Readiness for ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials, and customer security reviews
- ✓Incident response planning, tabletop exercises, and supplier assurance
- ✓Board reporting that translates risk into decisions
Frameworks & standards
UK GDPRChildren's Code (AADC)DfE cyber standardsCyber EssentialsISO 27001
How we work in education & edtech
We help EdTech teams build the security and data-protection story that unlocks education deals — privacy by design, credible safeguarding controls, and the evidence buyers' due-diligence teams actually ask for.