# RM Strengthens Cybersecurity Usability Across Education Platforms

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/rm-strengthens-cybersecurity-usability-across-education-platforms/4121251602
- Published: 2026-05-15T13:07:00+01:00
- Author: Amilia Stone

RM has introduced further improvements to multi-factor authentication within RM 
Unify, strengthening the platform’s relevance at a time when schools and education
organisations continue to prioritise cyber resilience, operational continuity and
protection of sensitive data.

The update is focused on making multi-factor authentication easier to deploy across
users, particularly in environments where trusted IP addresses are already in place.
The company is continuing to refine an established education technology product 
around practical customer needs, with cybersecurity, usability and managed rollout
all sitting at the centre of the development agenda.

Multi-factor authentication adds an additional layer of protection when users access
important applications through RM Unify, including widely used systems such as Google,
Microsoft 365 and CC5. In education settings, these systems can hold sensitive operational
and personal data, making secure access an essential requirement rather than an 
optional enhancement.

The challenge addressed by the update is a practical one. Where a school uses trusted
IP addresses, users on the school network may not be challenged for multi-factor
authentication. That can be appropriate from an access-control perspective, but 
it also means users who have not yet enrolled may not be prompted to set it up while
they are physically on site. Instead, they may only be asked to enrol when they 
are away from school and outside the trusted network, which is often the point at
which immediate support from IT staff is least available.

RM has responded by adding configuration options within the RM Unify Management 
Console that allow schools to tailor the rollout of multi-factor authentication 
more closely to their own requirements.

_**[RM plc](https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/company/rm-plc/rm.l)** (LON:
RM) is a global EdTech provider of learning and assessment solutions, supporting
the full learning journey, from early years through to higher education and professional
qualifications. _

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