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Effectively communicating during a cyber incident

📢 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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Contracts Register

📃 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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DfE Digital Standards Autumn Update

🍂 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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Stealing children's data

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.

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

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