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Best Practice Updates

🛡️✅ 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.

  1. ESFA Cyber Essentials Requirement for Colleges from 2024/2025
  2. ICO Reprimands a School
  3. Out of date technology
  4. Data Retention and the Pupil File
  5. Have you assigned your SLT Digital Lead yet?
  6. Getting Started with AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  7. Cyber attack on a school during half term
  8. The rise of cyber attacks in schools are causing pupils to miss classes
  9. ICO: Learning from the mistakes of others report
  10. Cyber attack on a Trust; the aftermath
  11. School Focus: The Vale Federation | Aylesbury
  12. DfE Dealing with Subject Access Requests (SARs) Guidance
  13. Update to the Guidance on Information Sharing from the DfE
  14. FOI Requests generated by Artificial Intelligence
  15. Social Media Best Practice Area
  16. Lettings Best Practice Area
  17. MFA Bombing - What is it?
  18. Protecting your Social Media Accounts
  19. Checklists - Are They Your Most Powerful Compliance Tool?
  20. Product Focus on Checklists : End of Term Checklist
  21. Product Focus on Checklists : Information and Cyber Security
  22. Product Focus on Checklists : Social Media
  23. Product Focus on Checklists : Lettings
  24. Product Focus on Checklists : Record of Processing
  25. Milk Island: The secret location that allows children to view restricted content on Google Maps
  26. Why Data Should Stay Put: Benefits of Keeping Data in Its Original System
  27. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Retention and Destruction
  28. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Migration
  29. Product Focus on Checklists : Biometrics
  30. Product Focus on Checklists : Supplier Due Diligence
  31. Free Cyber help, advice and training with the Cyber Resilience Centres
  32. The Perils of Paper: The Printing Vulnerability
  33. Product Focus on Checklists : FOI
  34. Product Focus on Checklists : Governors and Data
  35. Product Focus on Checklists : DPIA
  36. Product Focus on Checklists : Site Moves
  37. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Breaches
  38. Product Focus on Checklists : Subject Access Requests
  39. Product Focus on Checklists : Bring your own device
  40. Product Focus on Checklists : Working out of school/offsite
  41. Cyber Attack on a School
  42. Product Focus on Checklists : Redaction
  43. Why Due Diligence is Important: Fake apps
  44. Product Focus on Checklists : CCTV
  45. Product Focus on Checklists : Clear desk
  46. Product Focus on Checklists : Commitment to compliance
  47. Product Focus on Checklists : Photos and video
  48. Product Focus on Checklists : Passwords
  49. Product Focus on Checklists : Information Classification
  50. Free cyber training for staff
  51. DfE Digital Standards Update
  52. The Mother of all Breaches
  53. International Data Transfers (part 1): Navigating Cross-Border Data Transfers: Understanding EU SCCs, UK Addendum, and UK IDTA
  54. ClassCharts Possible Data Breach
  55. Where is your data stored?
  56. IAPP looks at AI privacy risks
  57. If you suspect a financial scam .....
  58. School Focus: St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School | Brighton
  59. Guardians of Privacy: 16. Social Media Checklist
  60. Guardians of Privacy: 15. Navigating Social Media in Educational Settings Summary
  61. Guardians of Privacy: 14. Social Media and Cyber Bullying
  62. Guardians of Privacy: 13. Social Media, Copyright and Intellectual Property
  63. Guardians of Privacy: 12. Social Media and Going Viral
  64. Guardians of Privacy: 11. Staff Social Media Accounts
  65. Guardians of Privacy: 9. Social Media and Morality
  66. New Resources for Schools from the ICO
  67. Guardians of Privacy: 8. Social Media Policies
  68. Guardians of Privacy: 7. Social Media Data Retention
  69. Guardians of Privacy: 6. Posting Safely
  70. Guardians of Privacy: 5. Social Media and Consent
  71. Guardians of Privacy: 4. Social Media Access Control
  72. Guardians of Privacy: 3. Social Media Channels
  73. Guardians of Privacy: 2. Law and Regulations
  74. The ICO reprimands a Multi Academy Trust
  75. Guidance for the use of school email and applying email retention in schools
  76. Data Protection Tips for Early Years Settings
  77. Children's Privacy around the world is a puzzle
  78. Records Management Best Practice Update
  79. What do I need to redact?
  80. Google for Education Resources: Helping IT Admins meet DfE digital and technology standards
  81. Lettings Best Practice and Guidance
  82. Considerations when migrating to a new MIS
  83. Public bodies and sensitive data
  84. Get a DPE Badge for your website!
  85. ICO: 10 Step guide to sharing information to safeguard children
  86. Help after a Cyber Attack/Incident
  87. Data Protection and Cyber Security (Inset Day) Training Ideas
  88. How KCSIE is linked to Cyber Strategy
  89. Handling Freedom of Information Requests the right way
  90. Where's Harry the Hacker?
  91. The ICO Reprimands a school
  92. Redaction Guidelines Updated
  93. How to contact us for support, subject access requests, data breaches and FOI's
  94. FOI: Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete
  95. FOI: Henry Jackson Society
  96. FOI: Vaccination Justifications
  97. How the Record of Processing Can Help You
  98. What does a Data Protection Officer Do?
  99. Carrying out Supplier Due Diligence
  100. How Long Should You Keep Personal Data For?
  101. B&H FoI: Racist/religious incidents/bullying
  102. Protocol for Setting Up and Delivery of Online Teaching and Learning
  103. Class Dojo International Data Sharing
  104. Model Publication Scheme: Amendments, Improvements and Updates
  105. Transparency
  106. Research projects and GDPR
  107. Secure file transfer of files using Royal Mail
  108. Emergency contacts and consent
  109. Key elements of a successful DPIA
  110. FOI Publication Schemes
  111. Best Practice for Managing Photos and Video
  112. New Drip Feeds: Recognise and Respond to Subject Access Request
  113. When to contact the Data Protection Officer?
  114. National child measurement programme
  115. Headteacher fined for breach of data protection legislation
  116. Acceptable Use Policy

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