| | NOV - DEC 20259CANADACANADATECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS THAT DRIVE EDUCATION SECTOR1EDTECH as state members and made this issue a priority. We need more educational organizations to join 1EDTECH and make this a priority. I am especially calling out my colleagues in higher education. If we want to make privacy a priority with vendors, having a community behind a common set of requirements is the key to making progress. For one, this makes it harder for software vendors to ignore the request, and at the same time, it gives those software vendors common requirements that they can implement and then be conformant. This win-win situation benefits both sides. As we move forward, 1EDTECH is working with members to develop a management dashboard where you will be able to see all applications launched using LTI and what their conformance is to the Data Privacy Rubrik. A similar effort has been underway at EDUCAUSE for the last decade that I was involved in with in the preliminary stages that have now become known as the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT). The HECVAT toolkit is managed by the EDUCAUSE Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) and is now on version 3.03. There is a full and lite version of the HECVAT. Hundreds of higher education institutions use the HECVAT for vendor security reviews, and vendors are getting accustomed to the fact they will be asked for these when selling to higher education institutions. Adopting the HECVAT as your standard security questionnaire will make your life much easier. We use the HECVAT lite for cloud applications that have very minimal data sharing and are a low-security risk. This is a more streamlined questionnaire, and most vendors have no problems answering the questions. Let's start 2023 with a new year resolution to work together so we can collectively improve the security and privacy of educational software applications in use at our educational organizations and reduce our efforts! That is like finding a dessert that tastes great and helps you lose weight.
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