Higher Education Content Governance
Governance for the 200 people who publish to your .edu
Universities have dozens or hundreds of content editors across departments, schools, and programs. Most have minimal training and no safety net between their CMS and the public internet. PillarShield checks content at the moment someone hits publish. If it finds student PII, FERPA-protected information, or policy violations, it blocks the publish and logs the decision. Works on Drupal, WordPress, or any CMS. About 1 second per check.
Distributed publishing. Untrained editors. Protected data everywhere.
Universities run some of the largest and most complex CMS environments anywhere. Multi-site Drupal instances spanning dozens of schools, departments, and programs. Hundreds of editors with varying levels of training, many of them grad assistants or student workers who turn over every semester. Content gets copied from internal documents, spreadsheets, and shared drives straight into the CMS without a second look.
Student PII (names, student IDs, grades, financial aid details) is protected under FERPA. A single violation can put federal funding eligibility at risk. And the exposure is not theoretical: 60% of all data breaches involve the human element (Verizon DBIR 2025). Tired people, undertrained editors, and copy-paste workflows are how protected information ends up on a public .edu page.
The risk grows with every new editor, every new site, and every semester of turnover. Policy PDFs do not scale. A check at the publish button does.
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What Gets Caught at the Publish Gate
PII and credential detection
Student names, student IDs, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, and financial aid details. Deterministic rules catch the patterns. AI handles ambiguous matches like partial IDs or names embedded in narrative text. API keys, internal system URLs, and admin credentials are flagged before they reach a public page.
Prohibited terms and policy rules
Internal-only language, draft watermarks, unapproved claims about programs or accreditation status, and anything else your institution needs to keep off the public web. You define the list. PillarShield enforces it consistently across every site and every editor.
Tone and safety checks
Discriminatory language, accessibility red flags, off-brand messaging, and content that should not be public. Deterministic rules always block. AI-powered checks warn or block based on the confidence thresholds you set.
Immutable audit trail
Every decision is logged server-side with timestamps, actor IDs, content hashes, and violation details. Hash-chained and verifiable. When your compliance office, legal counsel, or an auditor asks how you govern web publishing, you show them evidence, not a policy document.
Purpose-built for the way universities actually publish
Most universities run Drupal. Many run WordPress alongside it. PillarShield has native modules for both, plus a REST API for anything else. No CMS migration. No new platform to manage.
Multi-site at scale
One PillarShield instance governs all your sites. Department sites, program pages, research centers, student services. Same rules, same enforcement, same audit trail. Add a new site and governance follows automatically.
Audit trail that survives turnover
Staff leave. Grad assistants graduate. Student workers move on. The audit trail stays. Every publish decision is logged with who did it, what was checked, and what the outcome was. Permanent institutional memory, no matter who leaves.
Instant feedback at the publish button. Distributed editors get allow, warn, or block decisions right where the work happens. No training sessions. No compliance handbook.
Plans
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Core | $299/mo | 500 checks/mo, PII detection, moderation, AI advisory, 15-day audit retention |
| Protect | $799/mo | 2,000 checks/mo, custom prohibited terms, enforcement thresholds, full audit log UI, 90-day retention |
| Managed | $2,000+/mo | Unlimited checks, on-premises option, bring your own AI model, managed policy services, 365+ day retention |
Multi-site and enterprise deployments start at $5,000/mo. Inquire for details.
Early adopter pricing: code beta50for3 for 50% off your first 3 months. Full pricing details and FAQ.
See What PillarShield Catches on Your .edu
14 days. 200 checks. Full Protect-level access. No credit card required. Your audit trail and configuration carry over if you subscribe.
Early adopter pricing: 50% off your first 3 months with code beta50for3 at checkout.
Your editors are one paste away from a FERPA violation. Add a check at the publish button.
PillarShield governs content at the moment it matters. 1 second per check. Works with the CMS you already run.