(1) Ensuring student data/information confidentiality — Student applications and student affairs have to be cognizant of regulations like FERPA. Especially when handling cases about special student situations, sensitive personal and educational matters. Cloud-based platforms like Google Drive are great for ease of sharing student data between counselors and student advisors and deans. However, ensuring that this data is not lost or gets into the wrong hands is very important. Being able to encrypt such files and revoke access or prevent over-sharing is critical. GC can enable all of these.
Additionally, most large universities have foreign students, visiting researchers, and faculties. Ensuring foreign student personal data privacy is an additional concern they have to be extra cautious about. For instance, GDPR compliance (and also regional privacy regulations like CCPA) has put an additional burden on educational institutions. Again, these are some areas that GC can help significantly,