Consultation and Feedback

How we engage with industry, government and more to maintain the ST4S framework.

Who's involved

ST4S is coordinated by Education Services Australia Limited (ESA), a Ministerial not for profit in Australia.

The ST4S assessment framework is established by the ST4S Working Group which comprises government agencies and independent/catholic school sector representatives across Australia and New Zealand.

Developing criteria

ST4S incorporates standards and requirements from a range of sources and industry best practices. ST4S also researches and develops criteria to improve cybersecurity, privacy and online safety within educational services used in schools.

Criteria is drafted and proposed either by ESA or a ST4S Working Group member and then circulated for endorsement into the framework.

Examples of sources and references:

  • Legislation and regulations.
  • Policies and guidelines from government agencies.
  • OWASP and other cybersecurity frameworks or publications.
  • Privacy best practices (e.g. privacy by design).
  • Feedback from industry.
  • Best practices published by cloud service providers.

Get Involved

You can provide feedback to the ST4S framework and criteria by completing our feedback form.

We also publish additional surveys on various topics to help inform the framework. Feedback from surveys are first considered by ESA and may then be proposed to the ST4S Working Group for review.

We accept feedback from a number of groups including government agencies, app developers, advocacy groups and independent researchers or ethical hackers. Some surveys may only be open to certain groups depending on its context. 

ST4S Artificial Intelligence (AI) Module

Provide feedback on the latest AI criteria that was recently released in the ST4S framework.

  • Open for submissions.
  • App developers / suppliers only.
  • Submissions close December 2024.
Provide Feedback

ST4S Framework and Criteria Feedback

Provide feedback on any ST4S criteria and the framework. Simply write your response or upload your submission as a file for consideration.

  • Open for submissions.
  • Government, app developers, advocacy groups, researchers.
  • No closing date at this time.
Provide Feedback

FAQs

The general ‘ST4S Framework and Criteria Feedback’ simply asks for your contact information and provides a free text field or file upload to provide feedback. If you have feedback written already, it may take less than 5 minutes to complete.

Other surveys we publish on specific topics such as AI may take up to 30 minutes.

All surveys save your progress and can be resumed at a later time.

Schools in Australia and New Zealand may access the ST4S reports we produce on various apps and services. We do not currently open feedback on the ST4S framework and criteria to schools at this time. If you would like to provide feedback, we recommend contacting the Department of Education in your State/Territory (or the Ministry in New Zealand) who have representation on the ST4S Working Group. If you wish to however provide feedback on ST4S reports and you are a registered user to the ST4S catalogue we will be launching a survey shortly.
Not currently, unless you are a researcher (e.g. university researcher) or an ethical hacker. The surveys above will describe what groups they are open to.