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It's important to be prepared for when a cyber incident happens to you.  Part of that preparation should include having a Cyber Incident Response Plan, and part of that plan should include how to communicate, who does the communication and what they should say.

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A digital technology contracts register is a lit of all the contracts in your organisation with external suppliers for the supply of digital technology products and services.

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The DfE have published several updates to the DfE Digital Standards, updating the Filtering and Monitoring Standards, the Digital Leadership & Governance Standards and the Broadband Internet Standards for Schools and Colleges. We give our view on what that means and more details about the updates.

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In a Malwarebytes blog, author Mark Beare explains how your child's data can be stolen, and even more so if you have given medical  or health data.

  1. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 19. Anti-virus/anti-malware
  2. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 18. Regular Updates
  3. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 17. Access Control (Users)
  4. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 16. Access Control (Wi-Fi/Network access)
  5. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 15. Access Control (working from home/off site)
  6. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 14. Access Control (MFA)
  7. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 13. Awareness
  8. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 12. Training
  9. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 11. Policies and Procedures
  10. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 10. Assess where you are with cyber security
  11. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 9. A guide for education providers
  12. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 8. How can your organisation prevent Ransomware attacks?
  13. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 7. What does a Ransomware attack on a school look like?
  14. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 6. Cyber Action Plan
  15. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 5. Responsibilities
  16. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 4. What to do in a cyber attack
  17. DfE Digital Standards Webinars
  18. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 3. Data Security
  19. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 2. Privacy Protection
  20. Ofqual highlights the value of cyber security training in schools
  21. Searching for data when you receive a Subject Access Request
  22. Fylde Coast Academy Trust Cyber Attack This Week
  23. Calling all IT leads in schools and mult academy trusts!
  24. Ransomware cyber attack on a school in Bromley
  25. Join Our Social Media Family!
  26. School hit by Cyber Attack
  27. New Academic Year Kick-Off!
  28. New e-learning for 2024
  29. DfE Digital Standards for Schools and Colleges Tracker
  30. New Policies, Documents, Letters and Posters page
  31. Schools and Trusts Best Practice Area
  32. The DPE Retention Schedule
  33. Making the Rounds Update (now includes reporting)
  34. ESFA Cyber Essentials Requirement for Colleges from 2024/2025
  35. ICO Reprimands a School
  36. How does the recent global IT outage affect me?
  37. King's speech introduces new bills in relation to cyber security, smart data and digital information
  38. Navigating Privacy at the End of Term , Special Occasions and End of Year
  39. Out of date technology
  40. Data Retention and the Pupil File
  41. Have you assigned your SLT Digital Lead yet?
  42. What's a Cyber Incident and what should we do?
  43. Getting Started with AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  44. Cyber attack on a school during half term
  45. Free short cyber training for staff
  46. UPDATE: The Upcoming Election and The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
  47. Update to the DfE Digital Cyber Security Standards for Schools and Colleges (May 2024)
  48. The rise of cyber attacks in schools are causing pupils to miss classes
  49. ICO: Learning from the mistakes of others report
  50. Children's mental health data leaked after a cyber attack
  51. Cyber attack on a Trust; the aftermath
  52. School Focus: The Vale Federation | Aylesbury
  53. DfE Dealing with Subject Access Requests (SARs) Guidance
  54. Update to the Guidance on Information Sharing from the DfE
  55. Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024 (Education Institutions)
  56. Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024 (Businesses and Charities)
  57. FOI Requests generated by Artificial Intelligence
  58. Social Media Best Practice Area
  59. Lettings Best Practice Area
  60. Appropriate filtering and monitoring definitions
  61. MFA Bombing - What is it?
  62. Protecting your Social Media Accounts
  63. Why we recommend using checklists
  64. Product Focus on Checklists : Initial Trust Plan
  65. Product Focus on Checklists : End of Term Checklist
  66. Product Focus on Checklists : Information and Cyber Security
  67. Product Focus on Checklists : Social Media
  68. Cyber Incident Review: The Benefits
  69. Product Focus on Checklists : Lettings
  70. Product Focus on Checklists : Record of Processing
  71. Milk Island: The secret location that allows children to view restricted content on Google Maps
  72. Why Data Should Stay Put: Benefits of Keeping Data in Its Original System
  73. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Retention and Destruction
  74. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Migration
  75. Product Focus on Checklists : Biometrics
  76. Product Focus on Checklists : Supplier Due Diligence
  77. Free Cyber help, advice and training with the Cyber Resilience Centres
  78. The Perils of Paper: The Printing Vulnerability
  79. Product Focus on Checklists : FOI
  80. Product Focus on Checklists : Governors and Data
  81. Product Focus on Checklists : DPIA
  82. Product Focus on Checklists : Site Moves
  83. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Breaches
  84. Product Focus on Checklists : Subject Access Requests
  85. Cyber attack on a University
  86. Product Focus on Checklists : Bring your own device
  87. Product Focus on Checklists : Working out of school/offsite
  88. Cyber Attack on a School
  89. Product Focus on Checklists : Redaction
  90. Major cyber-criminal gang Lockbit brought down by UK Law Enforcement
  91. Why Due Diligence is Important: Fake apps
  92. Product Focus on Checklists : CCTV
  93. Product Focus on Checklists : Clear desk
  94. Product Focus on Checklists : Commitment to compliance
  95. Product Focus on Checklists : Photos and video
  96. Product Focus on Checklists : Passwords
  97. Product Focus on Checklists : Information Classification
  98. Safer Internet Day 2024
  99. Kent Councils Data Breach
  100. Free cyber training for staff
  101. DfE Digital Standards Update
  102. The Mother of all Breaches
  103. ClassCharts Possible Data Breach
  104. Where is your data stored?
  105. IAPP looks at AI privacy risks
  106. If you suspect a financial scam .....
  107. Guardians of Privacy: 16. Social Media Checklist
  108. Guardians of Privacy: 15. Navigating Social Media in Educational Settings Summary
  109. Guardians of Privacy: 14. Social Media and Cyber Bullying
  110. Guardians of Privacy: 13. Social Media, Copyright and Intellectual Property
  111. Guardians of Privacy: 12. Social Media and Going Viral
  112. Guardians of Privacy: 11. Staff Social Media Accounts
  113. Guardians of Privacy: 10. Social Media and Cookies
  114. Guardians of Privacy: 9. Social Media and Morality
  115. New Resources for Schools from the ICO
  116. Guardians of Privacy: 8. Social Media Policies
  117. Guardians of Privacy: 7. Social Media Data Retention
  118. Guardians of Privacy: 6. Posting Safely
  119. Guardians of Privacy: 5. Social Media and Consent
  120. Guardians of Privacy: 4. Social Media Access Control
  121. Guardians of Privacy: 3. Social Media Channels
  122. Guardians of Privacy: 2. Law and Regulations
  123. Guardians of Privacy: 1. Social media, privacy and children
  124. Latest ICO Reprimand. Mr. S. Claus, Chief Executive Officer, North Pole Enterprises
  125. Phishing attacks targeting schools - alert from City of London Police
  126. The Data Protection And Digital Information Bill (DPADI)
  127. The ICO reprimands a Multi Academy Trust
  128. KCSIE: Filtering, Monitoring and Privacy
  129. Guidance for the use of school email and applying email retention in schools
  130. CISA and UK NCSC Announce Joint Guidelines for Secure AI System Development
  131. Data Protection Tips for Early Years Settings
  132. Children's Privacy around the world is a puzzle
  133. Trust Initial Plan Checklist Update
  134. Update on Advisory for Rhysida Ransomware
  135. Records Management Best Practice Update
  136. Governors and Data Best Practice Area Update
  137. The Crime in a Cyber Attack and a Data Breach
  138. What do I need to redact?
  139. NCSC Annual Review is published for 2023
  140. Learning from Data Breaches
  141. Windows 11 security ineffective against attacks on old devices
  142. Trust Initial Plan for Data Protection Compliance (for Multi Academy Trusts)
  143. International Counter Ransomware Initiative 2023 Joint Statement
  144. Google for Education Resources: Helping IT Admins meet DfE digital and technology standards
  145. Resistant Cloud Backups
  146. Top Ten Cyber Security Misconfigurations
  147. Lettings Best Practice and Guidance
  148. ICO Reprimand: company suffered a ransomware attack
  149. The UK Online Safety Bill becomes an Act (Law)
  150. Considerations when migrating to a new MIS
  151. The importance of software updates (PaperCut vulnerability and Rhysida ransomware)
  152. Public bodies and sensitive data
  153. Adding offline bulk training using the Certificates function
  154. Ransomware, extortion and the cyber crime ecosystem
  155. ICO: 10 Step guide to sharing information to safeguard children
  156. Schools under Cyber Attack: September 2023
  157. Cyber Resource: The Cyber Resilience Centre Group
  158. Email and Security: ICO recent guidance
  159. Help after a Cyber Attack/Incident
  160. Social Media Policy
  161. Data Protection and Cyber Security (Inset Day) Training Ideas
  162. Changes to Microsoft Free Licensing for Schools
  163. What to do in the event of a Cyber Attack
  164. Cyber Crime: AI Generated Phishing Attacks
  165. Handling Freedom of Information Requests the right way
  166. Cyber Attack: Exam Boards
  167. VICE SOCIETY - Ransomware attacks on schools
  168. Using Tags if you are a group of organisations in the DPE Knowledge Bank
  169. Where's Harry the Hacker?
  170. Be Cyber Aware: USB Sticks
  171. Cyber Insurance in the Public Sector
  172. Types of Cyber Attacks: DDos Attack (Microsoft DDoS Attack in June)
  173. Cyber Attack: Manchester University
  174. Cyber Attack: Leytonstone School
  175. The ICO Reprimands a school
  176. Be Cyber Aware: Firewalls
  177. Subject Access Requests (SARs)
  178. Be Cyber Aware: Cyber attacks and transparency. A no blame culture
  179. Cyber Attack: Dorchester School
  180. Knowledge Bank Role Types: Admin, Staff and Trustee
  181. Types of Cyber Attacks: Password Attacks
  182. Be Cyber Aware: Why regular software updates are important
  183. Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2023
  184. Cyber Attack: Wiltshire School
  185. Keeping your IT systems safe and secure
  186. Types of Cyber Attacks: DDoS Attacks
  187. Types of Cyber Attacks: Phishing
  188. Types of Cyber Attacks: The Insider Threat
  189. Why your data is profitable to cyber criminals
  190. Using WhatsApp in Schools
  191. The Changes to Data Protection in the UK
  192. Knowledge Bank Updates
  193. Types of malware and how they are linked to data protection
  194. Striking Data Breach
  195. Windows Server 2012 & 2012 R2 Retirement
  196. How to contact us for support, subject access requests, data breaches and FOI's
  197. YouTube breached child protection laws
  198. How a school fought back after a cyberattack
  199. Types of Cyber Attacks - Credential Stuffing
  200. January Cyber update - How Can Schools Help Prevent Cyber Attacks?
  201. End of Windows 8.1 Support
  202. Assigning courses to staff using to-dos
  203. How the Record of Processing Can Help You
  204. Information Security Basics: What are VPN's?
  205. What does a Data Protection Officer Do?
  206. Are you ready for a Data Breach?
  207. Blog: Best Practice on the Retention of Child Protection Information
  208. Carrying out Supplier Due Diligence
  209. Email and retention periods
  210. How Long Should You Keep Personal Data For?
  211. The Education sector now at highest risk of cyber attacks
  212. How to Assess your Data Security
  213. Schools Blocked from Using Facial Recognition Systems
  214. Sharing this year’s Nativity play online
  215. A quick introduction to the Phishing Simulation tool
  216. The Children's Code
  217. Recording vaccination of staff
  218. B&H FoI: Racist/religious incidents/bullying
  219. Cyber Attacks
  220. Protocol for Setting Up and Delivery of Online Teaching and Learning
  221. Class Dojo International Data Sharing
  222. Model Publication Scheme: Amendments, Improvements and Updates
  223. Child friendly privacy notices
  224. Transparency
  225. Parents and students covertly recording conversations
  226. SAR? ER? FOI?
  227. Secure file transfer of files using Royal Mail
  228. Emergency contacts and consent
  229. Key elements of a successful DPIA
  230. FOI Publication Schemes
  231. SHARE: Avoid disinformation online
  232. Best Practice for Managing Photos and Video
  233. New Drip Feeds: Recognise and Respond to Subject Access Request
  234. When to contact the Data Protection Officer?
  235. National child measurement programme
  236. Make sure DPE is your registered DPO with the ICO
  237. Compliance Manager released
  238. Headteacher fined for breach of data protection legislation
  239. Emails – good practice and minimising the risk of a data breach

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