Academic Threat Intelligence
Stop playing whack-a-mole with students. It's time to address the ecosystem.
The integrity illusion
Most conversations about academic integrity focus on a single symptom: catching individual students who cheat. But zoom out, and behind every compromised exam is a vast, interconnected economic ecosystem — gray-market "homework helper" apps, misaligned institutional pressure to maintain graduation rates, and EdTech vendors driven by usage metrics rather than real learning outcomes.
Traditional cheating-catchers and lockdown browsers fight a symptom. We want to understand the disease.
Our mission
A single institution can't fight a global gray market alone. That's why Edvizion is launching the Academic Threat Intelligence initiative — mapping the hidden ecosystem of buyers, sellers, and perverse incentives driving academic fraud in K-12 and higher-education distance learning.
By shifting the conversation from a localized policing problem to a systemic market challenge, we can stop reacting to exploits and start building AI-resilient, high-value assessment architectures.
We need your ground-level perspective
We're building a coalition of forward-thinking educators, instructional designers, and institutional leaders ready to move beyond security theater — to track the gray market, expose real vulnerabilities, and build systemic solutions that actually work.
Academic Threat Intelligence is applied research co-led by Kenton Vizdos and Michael Vizdos, co-founders of Edvizion. They presented it as The Integrity Illusion at the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) conference in June 2026, and as the Maryland College Testing Association (MCTA) keynote in October 2026. About the talk →