Compliance built for the complexity of modern universities.
Auditerra helps universities, seminaries, colleges, and research institutions align with overlapping student privacy, financial aid, cybersecurity, and federal research obligations.
What makes Higher Education complex
Compliance in this industry is documentation-heavy, evidence-driven, and unforgiving of gaps. Below are the operational realities that turn vertical compliance into a full-time program rather than an annual checkbox.
Auditerra helps teams move from scattered spreadsheets to a structured compliance program — with shared evidence, clear ownership, and audit-ready documentation.
GLBA Safeguards Rule — The Surprise Requirement
Any institution participating in Title IV federal financial aid is a financial institution under GLBA, requiring encryption, MFA, and annual risk assessments. The FTC is enforcing.
Research Data & CUI Handling
Federal research grants from DoD, DoE, and NASA trigger NIST 800-171 and CMMC obligations. Most research universities lack the infrastructure to manage CUI across dozens of research labs.
Decentralized IT & Shadow IT
Universities have hundreds of independent departments each making their own technology decisions. Centralizing compliance without alienating faculty autonomy requires a platform approach.
Every framework your organization is accountable to
Auditerra maps controls across every framework simultaneously — one evidence artifact satisfies multiple requirements.
Auditerra maps controls across all applicable frameworks simultaneously — one evidence artifact satisfies multiple requirements.
The cost of non-compliance is not theoretical
Built for the way Higher Education teams actually work
Six purpose-built workflows that turn compliance obligations into structured programs.
GLBA WISP Automation
Generate a Written Information Security Program aligned to FTC Safeguards Rule with auto-mapped controls across financial aid, registrar, and bursar systems.
Research CUI Boundary Management
Define and track CUI scope across research labs, principal investigators, and grant-funded systems with NIST 800-171 control mapping.
HECVAT Vendor Assessment Automation
Pre-populated HECVAT responses for vendor security questionnaires with evidence library, version tracking, and reuse across departments.
Research Security Program (NSPM-33)
Build and maintain the NSPM-33 research security program required by federal sponsors with foreign-talent disclosure tracking.
Decentralized Compliance Dashboard
Single institutional view across colleges, departments, and research units with delegated control ownership and rollup reporting to the CIO and Provost.
Breach Notification Manager
Multi-state breach notification workflow templates, FERPA disclosure logs, and OCR/state AG reporting timelines pre-built.
We had FERPA covered but completely underestimated our GLBA exposure. Auditerra found 23 missing Safeguards Rule requirements across financial aid systems. Fixed in one semester.
Know your institution's full compliance obligation — in 48 hours.
From GLBA Safeguards to FERPA to federal research security — our $990 readiness check maps every obligation and identifies exactly where the gaps are.