Integration Solution Brief

The Challenge For K-12 Schools
With online learning, both in and out of the classroom and with school-issued devices being the newnormal for students in K-12, there is a new battleground in managing cyber security, ensuring access toappropriate content and safeguarding students from cyberbullying, self-harm and threats of violence.
With the adoption of collaboration tools such as Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 for chat andemail as an essential part of the learning experience, keeping track of a student's online activities has
become exponentially more complex.
Traditional approaches to addressing this problem require schools to make compromises between
best-in-class cyber security products, K-12 centric features and student safety solutions. All of which
creates additional work and overhead for IT support classroom teachers and wellbeing staff.

Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and Saasyan Assure
The Zero Trust Exchange provide secure communications for users, workloads, and devices, based on
identity and location, with consistent security policies over any network, across any location. The Zero
Trust Exchange is an integrated platform of services, delivered from the cloud, that provide secure userto-app, app-to-app and machine-machine communication over any network or device.
Saasyan Assure integrates with the Zero Trust Exchange to provide schools a safe environment for
their students on the internet.
Saasyan Assure is an AI-powered student safety & wellbeing solution enabling schools to detect andintervene against student cyberbullying, self-harm, suicide & threats of violence and terror.
Saasyan applies advanced analytics and AI to monitor, alert and report across all student digital
activities, including in chat, email, search, websites, social posts and videos.
Our cloud-based software-as-a-service solution integrates and leverages data and technologies alreadydeployed by schools such as identity management systems, next-generation firewalls and productivity
platforms including Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. It then applies multiple levels of intelligence
including a crowd-sourced words and phrases dictionary, fuzzy logic, natural language processing andcohort analysis to determine context and identify high-risk outlier student online activities.
Saasyan’s automated alerts and on-demand reports enable wellbeing counsellors to detect and respondto high-risk student behavioural and emotional indicators early, safeguard students across all theirdigital interactions and deliver on their student duty of care responsibilities.

Solution Overview

API

Assure receives the telemetry
from Zscaler via the Nanolog
Streaming Service (NSS). Using
this rich data set, Assure
analytics is able to detect highrisk student behavioural andemotional indicators early.

Logs & API calls

Leveraging Zscaler’s APIs,
Assure can create security
policies to facilitate self-service
classroom management andcontrol.

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Benefits For K-12 SchoolsZscaler and Saasyan have partnered, offering K-12 schools a no-compromise integrated solution
leveraging best-in-class cyber security and student safety and wellbeing.
With Saasyan’s integration with Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA), schools now have:
K-12 Centric Student Safety Alerting
Using artificial intelligence and dictionary-based matching techniques to determine if trigger
words and phrases are being used in search engines, video titles and in chat messages andemails using Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace.
Self-serve ReportingDesigned for ease of use by teachers, well-being professionals and other school staff.
The ready-to-use reports quickly and simply display the websites and applications the students
are accessing and the searches they are performing.
Classroom Management and Controls
Assure enables teachers to quickly create rules that allow or deny specific web pages, web
categories, or web applications for a class, a student or several specific students.
With these controls, teachers can create engagement by allowing uninterrupted access torequired content and the ability to create focus by temporarily blocking everything else that isnot part of the lesson.
This not only eliminates teacher and class wait times, but it also reduces the workload of ITteams.
Each rule can be permanent, temporary, or scheduled for a specific class
Assure’s integration with leading Learning Management Systems (LMS) allows teachers toaccess Assures Classroom Management and controls within their LMS.
Deep insights and alerts into chat and email in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
The Saasyan Assure API Connector for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, allows schools toapply Assure's advanced analytics and AI features to monitor Teams Chat, Outlook Emails,Google Chat and Gmail to detect, alert, investigate and report concerning student safety andwellbeing issues.

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