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Best Practice Updates

📲💬 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.

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Best Practice Updates

👩🏽‍🏫👨🏽‍💻 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, ensuring business continuity, strengthening cybersecurity, and optimising administrative processes.

  1. South East Technological University has experienced a cyber incident
  2. Safeguarding Identity in Microsoft 365: Protecting the UK Education Sector Against Cyber Threats
  3. Cyber Attack on a Special School
  4. Stealing children's data
  5. Ofqual highlights the value of cyber security training in schools
  6. Fylde Coast Academy Trust Cyber Attack This Week
  7. Calling all IT leads in schools and mult academy trusts!
  8. Ransomware cyber attack on a school in Bromley
  9. School hit by Cyber Attack
  10. DfE Digital Standards for Schools and Colleges Tracker
  11. Schools and Trusts Best Practice Area
  12. ESFA Cyber Essentials Requirement for Colleges from 2024/2025
  13. ICO Reprimands a School
  14. Out of date technology
  15. Data Retention and the Pupil File
  16. Have you assigned your SLT Digital Lead yet?
  17. What's a Cyber Incident and what should we do?
  18. Getting Started with AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  19. Cyber attack on a school during half term
  20. The rise of cyber attacks in schools are causing pupils to miss classes
  21. Cyber attack on a Trust; the aftermath
  22. School Focus: The Vale Federation | Aylesbury
  23. DfE Dealing with Subject Access Requests (SARs) Guidance
  24. Update to the Guidance on Information Sharing from the DfE
  25. Product Focus on Checklists : Initial Trust Plan
  26. Product Focus on Checklists : End of Term Checklist
  27. Product Focus on Checklists : Social Media
  28. Product Focus on Checklists : Lettings
  29. Milk Island: The secret location that allows children to view restricted content on Google Maps
  30. Free Cyber help, advice and training with the Cyber Resilience Centres
  31. The Perils of Paper: The Printing Vulnerability
  32. Product Focus on Checklists : Governors and Data
  33. Product Focus on Checklists : Site Moves
  34. Cyber attack on a University
  35. Product Focus on Checklists : Bring your own device
  36. Product Focus on Checklists : Working out of school/offsite
  37. Cyber Attack on a School
  38. Major cyber-criminal gang Lockbit brought down by UK Law Enforcement
  39. Product Focus on Checklists : Photos and video
  40. Safer Internet Day 2024
  41. Kent Councils Data Breach
  42. Free cyber training for staff
  43. DfE Digital Standards Update
  44. ClassCharts Possible Data Breach
  45. School Focus: St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School | Brighton
  46. Guardians of Privacy: 16. Social Media Checklist
  47. Guardians of Privacy: 15. Navigating Social Media in Educational Settings Summary
  48. Guardians of Privacy: 14. Social Media and Cyber Bullying
  49. Guardians of Privacy: 13. Social Media, Copyright and Intellectual Property
  50. Guardians of Privacy: 12. Social Media and Going Viral
  51. Guardians of Privacy: 11. Staff Social Media Accounts
  52. Guardians of Privacy: 10. Social Media and Cookies
  53. Guardians of Privacy: 9. Social Media and Morality
  54. New Resources for Schools from the ICO
  55. Guardians of Privacy: 8. Social Media Policies
  56. Guardians of Privacy: 7. Social Media Data Retention
  57. Guardians of Privacy: 6. Posting Safely
  58. Guardians of Privacy: 5. Social Media and Consent
  59. Guardians of Privacy: 4. Social Media Access Control
  60. Guardians of Privacy: 3. Social Media Channels
  61. Guardians of Privacy: 2. Law and Regulations
  62. Phishing attacks targeting schools - alert from City of London Police
  63. The ICO reprimands a Multi Academy Trust
  64. Guidance for the use of school email and applying email retention in schools
  65. Data Protection Tips for Early Years Settings
  66. Trust Initial Plan Checklist Update
  67. Update on Advisory for Rhysida Ransomware
  68. Trust Initial Plan for Data Protection Compliance (for Multi Academy Trusts)
  69. Google for Education Resources: Helping IT Admins meet DfE digital and technology standards
  70. Lettings Best Practice and Guidance
  71. The UK Online Safety Bill becomes an Act (Law)
  72. Considerations when migrating to a new MIS
  73. The importance of software updates (PaperCut vulnerability and Rhysida ransomware)
  74. Public bodies and sensitive data
  75. ICO: 10 Step guide to sharing information to safeguard children
  76. Email and Security: ICO recent guidance
  77. Social Media Policy
  78. Data Protection and Cyber Security (Inset Day) Training Ideas
  79. Changes to Microsoft Free Licensing for Schools
  80. What to do in the event of a Cyber Attack
  81. How KCSIE is linked to Cyber Strategy
  82. VICE SOCIETY - Ransomware attacks on schools
  83. Using Tags if you are a group of organisations in the DPE Knowledge Bank
  84. Cyber Insurance in the Public Sector
  85. Cyber Attack: Leytonstone School
  86. The ICO Reprimands a school
  87. Cyber Attack: Dorchester School
  88. Knowledge Bank Role Types: Admin, Staff and Trustee
  89. Cyber Attack: Wiltshire School
  90. Types of Cyber Attacks: The Insider Threat
  91. Why your data is profitable to cyber criminals
  92. Striking Data Breach
  93. January Cyber update - How Can Schools Help Prevent Cyber Attacks?
  94. FOI: Vaccination Justifications
  95. The Education sector now at highest risk of cyber attacks
  96. Schools Blocked from Using Facial Recognition Systems
  97. The Children's Code
  98. Cyber Attacks
  99. Protocol for Setting Up and Delivery of Online Teaching and Learning
  100. Class Dojo International Data Sharing
  101. Secure file transfer of files using Royal Mail
  102. Emergency contacts and consent
  103. Best Practice for Managing Photos and Video
  104. Headteacher fined for breach of data protection legislation

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