Every department's shadow AI is now the institution's audit risk.
Tokto puts every prompt your faculty, staff, students-as-researchers, and vendor-shared AI tools run, every model output that touches student data, research IP, or restricted research, under one auditable trail FERPA, OCR, IRB, the funding agency, and the export-control officer can read.
Educause data lands on the CIO's desk: 94% of staff use AI, 56% on unsanctioned tools. The first OpenClaw-class misconfiguration leaks 60,000 student records. The provost calls. The Department of Education calls. There is no per-department AI record to produce.
What you get with Tokto
- Every prompt and model output tied to a user, a department, a course, a study, a model version, and a data classification.
- A single audit log that satisfies the Department of Education, OCR, the IRB, the funding agency, and the SOC 2 auditor on the same evidence.
- Policy at the prompt: FERPA records, IRB-protected research, export-controlled work, and credentialed system access blocked before tokens leave the boundary.
- Visibility across every shadow AI experiment in every department, on day one.
How it works
Tokto sits at the AI control plane of the institution. Every faculty co-pilot, every administrative assistant, every research-team model, every vendor-shared AI inside the LMS or SIS becomes a record at the moment of output. The record carries the user, the department, the course, the study, the model version, the data classification, and the policy in force.
When the Department of Education asks how FERPA was governed across an AI tool, when OCR opens a Title IX inquiry on AI-assisted screening, when the funding agency asks how restricted research data was kept inside the IRB protocol, the answer is one query against the system of record. The CISO unifies what was hundreds of department-level experiments.
What goes wrong without it
- An OpenClaw-class misconfiguration leaks 60,000 student records. The DOE opens a FERPA inquiry. The CISO has 30 days.
- A vendor-embedded LMS AI tool retains student work past the term. CamoLeak-class loss of IP claim on a faculty member's research.
- Export-controlled research data flows through a non-US model under a researcher's grant. State Department exposure.
- Title IX exposure on an AI-assisted screening pipeline. No record of how decisions were produced.
Educause research finds 94% of higher education employees now use AI tools for work, but only 54% are aware of their institution's AI policy and 56% use AI tools the institution did not provide. Self-hosted education AI platform misconfigurations have exposed tens of thousands of student records per breach; over 1.8 million U.S. students have had education data exposed since 2020. Student PII flowing into unsanctioned tools sits squarely inside FERPA and COPPA exposure with no institutional record of consent or use limit.
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