The Time for GESS is Now: Why EdTech Cybersecurity Can No Longer Wait

The EdTech marketplace has a problem that everyone in the sector knows about, complains about, and has somehow tolerated for far too long: there is no common security bar. No shared expectations. No single target for providers to aim at. And while we have spent years discussing frameworks and requirements across jurisdictions, the breaches have kept coming — bigger, more frequent, and more damaging to the students whose data sits at the center of every incident.