What is a FERPA Audit?

Are you a service provider to educational institutions? Are you an educational institution or agency that receives federal funding? The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a United States federal law that governs the access and privacy of educational information and records. The educational records that a covered entity or business associate creates, receives, maintains, or transmits must be protected against reasonably anticipated threats, hazards, and impermissible uses and/or disclosures. FERPA compliance protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of educational records. FERPA Audit

How Can a FERPA Audit Benefit Your Organization?

FERPA compliance affirms the security of your services and gives your organization the ability to provide clients and regulators with evidence from an auditor who has actually seen your internal controls in place and operating. FERPA compliance can help your organization maintain loyal clients and attract new ones, operate more efficiently, avoid fines for non-compliance or a loss of federal funding, and most importantly: assure clients and regulators that students’ personal data is protected.

Why Work with KirkpatrickPrice?

KirkpatrickPrice is committed to helping your organization protect educational records. When you partner with KirkpatrickPrice, you work with Information Security Specialists who are senior-level experts, holding certifications like CISSP, CISA, CISM, and CRISC.

Our audit delivery tool, the Online Audit Manager, streamlines the audit process, helps reduce the complexity of compliance efforts, and gives our clients the ability to combine multiple audit frameworks into one audit. We’ve spent over a decade honing this process so that clients can complete one audit process while receiving multiple reports.

Connect with us today to learn more about the time it takes to complete a FERPA audit and take part in a free demo of the Online Audit Manager.

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