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tions, confirmed that all Tyler Drive tablets are encrypted and that districts can choose how registration informa- tion is shown when student data is being inputted. Maybee said the Denver IT team has a series of regula-
tions in place to prevent student data from falling into the wrong hands and that vendors are required to sign a data privacy agreement “to make sure their systems meet the same level of security our network has to maintain ade- quate protections,” he continued. “We limited the amount of personal identifiable information on the ID virtual and physical ID cards to make sure even if a card was misplaced and then subsequently found that a student’s information is not at risk. This also includes encrypting the QR code so that a scan must be tied to our system to make any sense out of the resulting scan data.” Edulog’s Lam-Nyugen Bull, who serves as the compa-
ny’s chief experience officer, said the software company maintains SOC 2, Type 2 compliance and that “all data is encrypted at rest and in transit and we regularly under- go third-party penetration testing and evaluation of our overall security posture.” As a certified risk manager, Ammon encouraged
student transportation professionals to find resources or individuals that can assist with being able to “talk to your vendor intelligently about their data security procedures.”
Especially when integrating different vendors’ tech-
nology options into one transportation operation, he said that collaboration is crucial with increased risk of malicious cybersecurity attacks. “From a vendor perspective, it’s very likely that each
district will have its own flavor of how it wants to deal with this, and so like as a vendor, I should know that, right? Because I should be responding to what your requirements are as a customer, right? To assume that all 16,000 school districts in the country want exactly the same response in the event of it is, I think, a fallacy,” Ammon said. “There should be some collaboration be- tween the district and the vendor in terms of, here’s our expectations around this, here’s the universe of what’s possible. How do we want to narrow that universe so that it fits whatever we’re doing?”
Evolving Technology RFID cards, QR codes, barcodes and manual checklists
are all ways that student ridership can be documented. Most industry experts agree that RFID cards can help keep tabs on the students on the bus without exposing their information, but what are the future possibilities when it comes to this technology? Ammon noted that video camera facial recognition or
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