Education Penetration Testing

Penetration testing that protects students, research, and institutional trust

Request a Quote
Schedule a 30 Minute Walkthrough

Penetration Testing Built for Schools and Universities

Educational institutions are one of the most attacked sectors in the world, and one of the least resourced to defend themselves. Raxis delivers human-led, AI-augmented penetration testing built for the complexity of academic environments, where open networks, shared infrastructure, and sensitive student data create a uniquely challenging attack surface.

Request A Quote Schedule Call

Student Data & FERPA Compliance

Validate that student records, financial aid systems, and enrollment platforms are protected against unauthorized access.

Campus Network & Wireless Security

Test the sprawling, open-access networks that connect students, faculty, staff, and guests across campuses.

LMS, Portal & Research System Testing

Hands-on assessment of learning management systems, student portals, research databases, and third-party EdTech integrations.

The Problem with Most Education Pentests

Universities and school districts have some of the largest, most fragmented attack surfaces of any industry. Yet most pentest vendors treat academic environments the same way they treat a mid-size corporate network. That misses the point entirely.

Open Networks That Nobody Tested Like Open Networks

Campus wireless networks are designed for accessibility. Students, faculty, staff, contractors, and guests all connect to infrastructure that also touches student records, financial systems, and research data. A pentest that only checks the firewall perimeter misses how an attacker on the campus Wi-Fi can pivot into sensitive systems. Raxis tests from the inside out, the way a real threat actually moves through an academic network.

Student Portals and LMS Platforms with Real Vulnerabilities

Learning management systems, self-service portals, financial aid applications, and enrollment platforms handle massive amounts of PII. These web applications often run on legacy code or rely on third-party integrations that introduce authentication gaps, privilege escalation paths, and data exposure risks. Raxis tests the applications your students and faculty use every day.

Research Data That’s Worth More Than You Think

University research, particularly in STEM, defense-funded, and healthcare-related fields, is a high-value target for nation-state actors and cybercriminals. Research networks, collaboration platforms, and lab systems often operate with less security oversight than administrative systems. Raxis tests these environments to ensure intellectual property and grant-funded data stay protected.

Segmentation That Doesn’t Survive Contact with Reality

Most institutions segment student networks from administrative and research systems. But segmentation only works if it holds under attack. Raxis uses real lateral movement techniques to validate that a compromised student device can’t reach FERPA-protected records, financial systems, or research infrastructure.

Request A Quote Schedule Call

Why Raxis for Education Penetration Testing

Find real risks in complex academic environments

OSCP-certified engineers manually test your institution’s unique mix of open campus networks, legacy applications, cloud platforms, and administrative systems. You get findings that reflect how an attacker actually moves through an educational environment, not generic scan output.

Validate your network segmentation

Campus networks are notoriously complex, with student, faculty, guest, administrative, and research segments all coexisting on shared infrastructure. Raxis validates those boundaries with real lateral movement testing to confirm a compromise in one zone can’t reach another.

Test without disrupting learning

Raxis operates within strict rules of engagement designed for academic environments. We test production systems safely, coordinating around academic calendars, enrollment periods, and class schedules to ensure zero disruption to teaching, learning, or administration.

Support FERPA, PCI, and institutional compliance

Every Raxis engagement produces audit-ready reporting that maps to relevant compliance frameworks, including FERPA for student data, PCI DSS for payment processing, and institutional security policies. Your compliance team gets evidence, not extra homework.

Secure the applications students depend on

We test learning management systems, student portals, enrollment platforms, financial aid applications, and EdTech integrations end-to-end. Application-layer vulnerabilities are where most education breaches start. We make sure yours can take the hit.

Stay covered year-round with PTaaS

Annual testing leaves gaps in environments that change constantly, with new semester enrollments, EdTech platform additions, and infrastructure updates. Raxis Attack (PTaaS) delivers continuous, AI-augmented testing with real-time results and unlimited retesting through the Raxis One portal.

Request A Quote Schedule Call

Frequently Asked Questions About Education Penetration Testing

It’s a hands-on simulated attack against your institution’s networks, applications, student-facing systems, and supporting infrastructure. The goal is to find exploitable vulnerabilities before real attackers do, protecting student data, research, and institutional operations.

Educational institutions combine large, open-access networks with massive stores of personal data, research IP, and financial information, often defended by understaffed and underfunded IT teams. Attackers know this. Education consistently ranks among the most targeted sectors for ransomware, phishing, and data breaches.

Most vendors run generic network scans that don’t account for the realities of academic environments: open campus Wi-Fi, shared infrastructure, legacy LMS platforms, and research networks with different security profiles. Raxis engineers scope every engagement around your institution’s actual architecture and test the way a motivated attacker would move through it.

We test campus wired and wireless networks, student portals, learning management systems, enrollment and financial aid platforms, research databases and collaboration tools, cloud infrastructure, email systems, and third-party EdTech integrations. We scope each engagement to your institution’s specific environment.

Yes, and this is critical for education. Most institutions rely on segmentation to keep student network activity separate from FERPA-protected records and financial systems. Raxis validates those boundaries with real lateral movement techniques, not just port scans, to confirm they hold under attack.

No. Raxis operates within strict rules of engagement and coordinates with your IT team around academic calendars, enrollment windows, and exam periods. Our goal is to expose vulnerabilities without causing any disruption to teaching, learning, or administrative operations.

Raxis Attack is our Penetration Testing as a Service platform, delivering continuous, AI-augmented testing with real-time results and unlimited retesting through the secure Raxis One portal. It’s built for environments like education where infrastructure changes frequently and annual testing leaves gaps.

At minimum annually, or after significant infrastructure changes like new LMS deployments, campus network expansions, or cloud migrations. Many institutions choose continuous testing through Raxis Attack for year-round coverage.

Raxis testers hold industry-leading certifications including OSCP, CEH, GPEN, GFACT, and more listed on our certifications page.

Let’s Chat About Your Project
Name(Required)
Please let us know what's on your mind. Have a question for us? Ask away.
Popped Culture Newsletter
Would you like to opt in and receive our Popped Culture Newsletter? Typically about once a month, we send out an email with news on the latest in the cybersecurity industry, as well as insights on penetration testing trends.

Our security experts will contact you within 1 business day