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New Academic Year Kick-Off!

Schools are back in full swing, and so is our work at Data Protection Education! This week, we’ve been busy with data walks, on-site training, and booking meetings across various schools to ensure data protection standards are up to date and effective.

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Cyber Security Best Practice Area

🛡️✅ Gone are the days when cyber security issues meant accidentally downloading a virus, it has grown to mean so much more, where data and identities are stolen, fraud is committed and businesses can be shut down from a cyber attack.  With that in mind we have created a cyber security best practice area to help guide and support your data protection compliance.

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DfE Digital Standards for Schools and Colleges Tracker

The data protection officer is mentioned many times in the DfE Digital Standards for Schools and Colleges as someone that should either be informed or consulted with.  As part of that consultation process, we would like to announce our new DfE Digital Standards for Schools and Colleges Tracker.

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 Out of date technology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

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