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Let’s talk compliance in security/privacy…..
We all know education is relying more and more on vendors and outside partners and this is especial true of edtech. It makes sense, let professional educators educate, and let businesses bring solutions that enable education. I know, sounds good, but in practice, it can be a mess. Can you trust vendors/partners to provide the right solution or...
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Ken Brown – Frontline Education...
K12 Tech Leader InfoSec Survey Results
What can we infer? The results are in from a recent K12 security survey conducted by Frontline Education (see here). The survey spun off of another recent survey, conducted by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), which revealed that cyber security had moved into the top spot amongst current K-12 IT leadership concerns. And with good reason. Education...
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Oh look…..another blog, great!
Yeah, I know, who doesn’t have a blog, twitter feed, podcast or some other form of social media publication these days? It’s hard enough to stay on top of Slack, email and SMS with co-workers and family, and then curate your own unified feed of info sources you care about. So, what’s the point? Well, to be honest,...
Continue readingWarning: Is your district at risk of a cyber security breach?
IT/Security By Ken Brown, Chief Information Security Officer, Frontline Education on 9/19/2017 Just this month, over 143 million American discovered their sensitive information was compromised by a massive security breach at Equifax. Once again Americans find themselves scrambling to update passwords and wondering when the scammer emails and phone calls will start rolling in. For school districts, cyber...
Continue readingCyber Security in K-12: Is Your School District Prepared?
IT/Security By Ken Brown, Chief Information Security Officer, Frontline Education on 3/13/2017 In a matter of decades, we’ve leapt forward a millennium in cyber technology. In the digital age, the development of new cyber tools and increasingly useful applications hasn’t shown much sign of slowing down. Unfortunately, the inherent risks haven’t either. With so much sensitive information necessarily...
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