🧸 🚼 As digital technology continues to increase in our educational settings, Early Years settings are increasingly integrating digital tools into their operations. While this might enhance efficiency and communication, it also raises concerns and challenges about cyber security and data protection.
Governing bodies have a strategic oversight of all of a school or trust's strategies, including cyber security and data protection.
🎄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).
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.
We've put all the specific school and trust related data protection guides, documents and queries into one area to make it easier for you.
The ICO have issued a reprimand to a school that did not follow due diligence when introducing facial recognition technology (FRT).
| Organisations should review NCSC guidance to make sure that multi-layer phishing mitigations are in place, while individuals should be alert to suspicious emails or messages on this topic and know what to look for. |
Incidents or attacks where any security breaches may have taken place, or other damage was caused, should be reported to an external body.
The SLT digital lead will be responsible for assigning someone to report any suspicious cyber incidents or attacks. This person will need to report this to:
You may also need to report to:
You must act in accordance with:
Police investigations may find out if any compromised data has been published or sold and identify the perpetrator.
Preserving evidence is as important as recovering from the crime.
Forward suspicious emails to
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