Email security that runs on one IT director.
School districts process millions in vendor payments and hold student data protected by federal law. The threats are AI-generated payroll redirects, vendor invoice fraud, and ransomware lures that legacy filters miss. StrongestLayer reasons about every email and stops the attacks before they land, with no MX changes and no agents on staff or student devices.
The patterns getting past Google and Microsoft.
Each is industry-known and reasoning-detectable. We don’t need a signature to catch what’s already in the wild.
An attacker poses as a teacher or staff member and asks HR to redirect direct deposit to a new account. The lookalike domain is registered hours before the request. The first paycheck of the month is gone.
A real district vendor (or a compromised one) sends an updated wire instruction. AP processes it. Curriculum software, transportation contracts, and food service are common targets — predictable monthly payments make for predictable fraud.
A fake doc-share link targeted at staff. The link drops a stealer or initial-access malware. One foothold inside a district network is what shutters classes for two weeks while you rebuild.
Designed for the team you actually have.
If you have one IT director, a small helpdesk, and Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 — this is exactly what we built for.
No MX changes. No mail-flow disruption. No agents on staff or student devices. We connect via Google Workspace API or Microsoft Graph and start reasoning in real time.
Every flagged email comes with a reasoning trace anyone on your helpdesk can read. Inbox Advisor lets staff self-verify suspicious mail before they ticket it.
Email content is processed in memory and never written to long-term storage. Only metadata is retained. Includable in your FERPA data-handling agreements.
Aligned with student-data privacy law.
Documentation packs available for procurement and security reviews.
FERPA
Email content not persisted. Metadata-only retention; data-handling agreement available.
COPPA
No collection of student-identifiable data from message content.
State Privacy
Includable in state-level student-data agreements (NY Ed Law 2-d, CA SOPIPA, others).
NIST CSF
Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond — mapped to email-borne threats.
Quick answers on K–12 deployments.
Why are school districts targeted by email-based attacks?
Districts process large vendor payments, run small IT teams, and hold student data subject to FERPA. Predictable monthly invoicing makes for predictable fraud. The combination of finance authority and a small security team makes districts an attractive target for vendor-impersonation, payroll redirect, and ransomware-by-email.
Does StrongestLayer affect FERPA or student privacy compliance?
No. Email content is processed in memory by the reasoning engines and not written to long-term storage. Only metadata is retained. Districts can include StrongestLayer in their FERPA data-handling agreements; full security and privacy documentation is available.
Does it work with Google Workspace?
Yes. We integrate with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 via API. 15-minute deployment, no MX changes, no agents on staff or student devices.
Will it disrupt staff or student email?
No. We deploy in parallel with your existing setup. Verdicts run in the background; no mail-flow changes; no parent-facing disruption.
Don’t let one phish close school for two weeks.
15-minute API deploy. No MX changes. No agents on staff or student devices.
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