- Tammy Buchanan
- Best Practice Updates
School shares sensitive pupil information as part of an FOI response
🚨 Pupils' sensitive data was shared 'by mistake' by Wellsway School in response to an FOI. 🚨
Schools & MATs
- Tammy Buchanan
- Best Practice Updates
Blacon High School Cyber Attack
🏴☠️ 📢 A school is closed today and tomorrow as the result of a ransomware cyber attack.
- Tammy Buchanan
- Best Practice Updates
WhatsApp and FOI's: ICO Warnings
📲💬 We come across many organisations using WhatsApp as a communication tool with staff regularly and have previously highlighted some of the risks. The ICO have recently published information about a case where WhatsApp messages had to be included in a Freedom of Information Request.
- Tammy Buchanan
- Best Practice Updates
New AI Guidance from the DfE
📢📢 The DfE has recently published new guidance and resources about using Artificial Intelligence in a school environment.
- Tammy Buchanan
- Best Practice Updates
What the proposed Government legislative proposal around cyber crime means
🛡️🖥️ Today the Government launched a consultation period about introducing legislation to counter ransomware.
- Tammy Buchanan
- Best Practice Updates
DfE update to record keeping and management
📂 📄 The DfE issued an update to data sharing and record keeping and management in December.
In December (2024) there was an update to data sharing guidance for school immunisation programmes.
- Tammy Buchanan
- Best Practice Updates
SLT Digital Lead Profile
👩🏽🏫👨🏽💻 Since we have been talking to schools and multi academy trusts about the SLT digital lead, there have been a lot of questions about who that should be in the organisation. There’s often an assumption that it should automatically be the IT Manager, technician, or Data Protection Lead. In this article, we explore the profile of an effective SLT Digital Lead and their critical role in shaping digital strategy, integrating technology into teaching and learning,
Governing bodies have a strategic oversight of all of a school or trust's strategies, including cyber security and data protection.
- Tammy Buchanan
- Best Practice Updates
Navigating Privacy at the End of Term , Special Occasions and End of Year
🎄We've updated our end of term and end of year guidance, alongside advice for privacy considerations for special occasions (which also normally occur at the end of term, such as Christmas).
- Tammy Buchanan
- Information/Cyber Security
South East Technological University has experienced a cyber incident
⚠️ On Friday 8th November South East Technological University (SETU) experienced a cyber security incident.
- Tammy Buchanan
- Information/Cyber Security
Safeguarding Identity in Microsoft 365: Protecting the UK Education Sector Against Cyber Threats
We are sharing some of blog posts by school ICT technicians and ICT managers that are giving their advice about keeping your school cyber secure and resilient.
- Cyber Attack on a Special School
- Stealing children's data
- Ofqual highlights the value of cyber security training in schools
- Fylde Coast Academy Trust Cyber Attack This Week
- Calling all IT leads in schools and mult academy trusts!
- Ransomware cyber attack on a school in Bromley
- School hit by Cyber Attack
- DfE Digital Standards for Schools and Colleges Tracker
- Schools and Trusts Best Practice Area
- ESFA Cyber Essentials Requirement for Colleges from 2024/2025
- ICO Reprimands a School
- Out of date technology
- Data Retention and the Pupil File
- Have you assigned your SLT Digital Lead yet?
- What's a Cyber Incident and what should we do?
- Getting Started with AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- Cyber attack on a school during half term
- The rise of cyber attacks in schools are causing pupils to miss classes
- Cyber attack on a Trust; the aftermath
- School Focus: The Vale Federation | Aylesbury
- DfE Dealing with Subject Access Requests (SARs) Guidance
- Update to the Guidance on Information Sharing from the DfE
- Product Focus on Checklists : Initial Trust Plan
- Product Focus on Checklists : End of Term Checklist
- Product Focus on Checklists : Social Media
- Product Focus on Checklists : Lettings
- Milk Island: The secret location that allows children to view restricted content on Google Maps
- Free Cyber help, advice and training with the Cyber Resilience Centres
- The Perils of Paper: The Printing Vulnerability
- Product Focus on Checklists : Governors and Data
- Product Focus on Checklists : Site Moves
- Cyber attack on a University
- Product Focus on Checklists : Bring your own device
- Product Focus on Checklists : Working out of school/offsite
- Cyber Attack on a School
- Major cyber-criminal gang Lockbit brought down by UK Law Enforcement
- Product Focus on Checklists : Photos and video
- Safer Internet Day 2024
- Kent Councils Data Breach
- Free cyber training for staff
- DfE Digital Standards Update
- ClassCharts Possible Data Breach
- School Focus: St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School | Brighton
- Guardians of Privacy: 16. Social Media Checklist
- Guardians of Privacy: 15. Navigating Social Media in Educational Settings Summary
- Guardians of Privacy: 14. Social Media and Cyber Bullying
- Guardians of Privacy: 13. Social Media, Copyright and Intellectual Property
- Guardians of Privacy: 12. Social Media and Going Viral
- Guardians of Privacy: 11. Staff Social Media Accounts
- Guardians of Privacy: 10. Social Media and Cookies
- Guardians of Privacy: 9. Social Media and Morality
- New Resources for Schools from the ICO
- Guardians of Privacy: 8. Social Media Policies
- Guardians of Privacy: 7. Social Media Data Retention
- Guardians of Privacy: 6. Posting Safely
- Guardians of Privacy: 5. Social Media and Consent
- Guardians of Privacy: 4. Social Media Access Control
- Guardians of Privacy: 3. Social Media Channels
- Guardians of Privacy: 2. Law and Regulations
- Phishing attacks targeting schools - alert from City of London Police
- The ICO reprimands a Multi Academy Trust
- Guidance for the use of school email and applying email retention in schools
- Data Protection Tips for Early Years Settings
- Trust Initial Plan Checklist Update
- Update on Advisory for Rhysida Ransomware
- Trust Initial Plan for Data Protection Compliance (for Multi Academy Trusts)
- Google for Education Resources: Helping IT Admins meet DfE digital and technology standards
- Lettings Best Practice and Guidance
- The UK Online Safety Bill becomes an Act (Law)
- Considerations when migrating to a new MIS
- The importance of software updates (PaperCut vulnerability and Rhysida ransomware)
- Public bodies and sensitive data
- ICO: 10 Step guide to sharing information to safeguard children
- Email and Security: ICO recent guidance
- Social Media Policy
- Data Protection and Cyber Security (Inset Day) Training Ideas
- Changes to Microsoft Free Licensing for Schools
- What to do in the event of a Cyber Attack
- How KCSIE is linked to Cyber Strategy
- VICE SOCIETY - Ransomware attacks on schools
- Using Tags if you are a group of organisations in the DPE Knowledge Bank
- Cyber Insurance in the Public Sector
- Cyber Attack: Leytonstone School
- The ICO Reprimands a school
- Cyber Attack: Dorchester School
- Knowledge Bank Role Types: Admin, Staff and Trustee
- Cyber Attack: Wiltshire School
- Types of Cyber Attacks: The Insider Threat
- Why your data is profitable to cyber criminals
- Striking Data Breach
- January Cyber update - How Can Schools Help Prevent Cyber Attacks?
- FOI: Vaccination Justifications
- The Education sector now at highest risk of cyber attacks
- Schools Blocked from Using Facial Recognition Systems
- The Children's Code
- Cyber Attacks
- Protocol for Setting Up and Delivery of Online Teaching and Learning
- Class Dojo International Data Sharing
- Secure file transfer of files using Royal Mail
- Emergency contacts and consent
- Best Practice for Managing Photos and Video
- Headteacher fined for breach of data protection legislation
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