Overview

Caveon is the first end-to-end test security services firm to offer protection against cheating and test fraud with detection services to identify breaches, remediation to leverage legal process to halt abuses of sensitive test information, and prevention to secure tests from compromise.

Industry Need
Testing security is complex to administer and difficult to manage. Test developers, publishers and testing centers typically lack the time and personnel resources necessary to investigate or otherwise respond to test fraud.

There is a significant need for technologies that can quantify, verify and control exam compromise to protect both the value of the test and the reputations of the test publisher or administrator.

Key Markets
Test Sponsors and Program Managers focusing in the following industry sectors:

• Clinical—diagnostic and therapeutic qualification measurement,
• Educational—K-12, secondary, post-secondary, instructors,
• Industrial/Organizational—placement and advancement for the workplace, and
• Licensure/Certification—professional certification (Example: MCP, A+, CNE) and licensure (Example: MD, MD, CPA) exams.

Services
Caveon’s full range of consulting offerings includes:

Detection

• Security Audits review security measures against industry-endorsed security standards to determine if a breach has occurred, or to identify potential security problems
• Caveon Data Forensics to monitor test data, via proprietary statistical methods, for anomalies and response patterns that indicate test fraud
• Caveon Web Patrol crawling and other proprietary techniques to identify unauthorized disclosures, and disclosers, of sensitive test information

Remediation

• Investigative Services to verify suspected test fraud with surveillance, candidate authentication and proctoring procedures, and tampering analysis

Prevention

• Secure Services to ensure test publishers have legally sound, market tested and scientific methods to design secure testing programs
• Security Reports are in-depth research reports and market surveys that are edited and compiled by Caveon to keep testing publishers and administrators informed on security-related issues
• Caveon Security Partners a network of Caveon-approved test security-related service and product providers