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Best Practice Updates

This article is one of a series written by Data Protection Education in collaboration with Litus Digital, a social media management company.  The articles came about from questions asked by Data Protection Education's customers, our own experience of working in education,  as school governors, parents and data protection professionals.  The articles raise questions about how social media can be used as safely as possible in a school environment,  security considerations, the law and protecting children.  It is not possible to cover every aspect of social media, but the articles aim to provide guidance, raise privacy questions and provide some support for safe posting.

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Best Practice Updates

This article is one of a series written by Data Protection Education in collaboration with Litus Digital, a social media management company.  The articles came about from questions asked by Data Protection Education's customers, our own experience of working in education,  as school governors, parents and data protection professionals.  The articles raise questions about how social media can be used as safely as possible in a school environment,  security considerations, the law and protecting children.  It is not possible to cover every aspect of social media, but the articles aim to provide guidance, raise privacy questions and provide some support for safe posting.

hand holding a mobile phone with social media icons on it. Litus Digital logo and Data Protection Education logo. Guardians of Privacy: Navigating social media in educational settings in blue text. A series of articles about social media, privacy and schools in black text. Coloured pencils at the bottom
Best Practice Updates

This article is one of a series written by Data Protection Education in collaboration with Litus Digital, a social media management company.  The articles came about from questions asked by Data Protection Education's customers, our own experience of working in education,  as school governors, parents and data protection professionals.  The articles raise questions about how social media can be used as safely as possible in a school environment,  security considerations, the law and protecting children.  It is not possible to cover every aspect of social media, but the articles aim to provide guidance, raise privacy questions and provide some support for safe posting.

hand holding a mobile phone with social media icons on it. Litus Digital logo and Data Protection Education logo. Guardians of Privacy: Navigating social media in educational settings in blue text. A series of articles about social media, privacy and schools in black text. Coloured pencils at the bottom
Best Practice Updates

This article is one of a series written by Data Protection Education in collaboration with Litus Digital, a social media management company.  The articles came about from questions asked by Data Protection Education's customers, our own experience of working in education,  as school governors, parents and data protection professionals.  The articles raise questions about how social media can be used as safely as possible in a school environment,  security considerations, the law and protecting children.  It is not possible to cover every aspect of social media, but the articles aim to provide guidance, raise privacy questions and provide some support for safe posting.

hand holding a mobile phone with social media icons on it. Litus Digital logo and Data Protection Education logo. Guardians of Privacy: Navigating social media in educational settings in blue text. A series of articles about social media, privacy and schools in black text. Coloured pencils at the bottom
Best Practice Updates

This article is one of a series written by Data Protection Education in collaboration with Litus Digital, a social media management company.  The articles came about from questions asked by Data Protection Education's customers, our own experience of working in education,  as school governors, parents and data protection professionals.  The articles raise questions about how social media can be used as safely as possible in a school environment,  security considerations, the law and protecting children.  It is not possible to cover every aspect of social media, but the articles aim to provide guidance, raise privacy questions and provide some support for safe posting.

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Information/Cyber Security

The City of London Police is warning schools across the UK to be vigilant against phishing attacks targeting school networks. Multiple schools have reported receiving suspicious emails containing malicious attachments that have infected their networks with malware.

Once infected, the school's email systems are used to send malicious attachments to other schools.

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Help and Advice against Phishing:

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NCSC Guidance Phishing Attacks: defending your organisation


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Information/Cyber Security

We have previously reported how the Rhysida Ransomware has focused on attacking the education sector.  Recently the CISA, FBI and MS-ISAC have released a new joint Cyber Security Advisory to disseminate known Rhysida ransomware indicators of compromise, detection methods, tactics, techniques and procedures identified through recent investigations.

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Best Practice Updates

During our data walks we are looking at data breach risks, in terms of 'Who has access to what data?'.  As part of our walk we may ask who has access to the school other than the employees and children attending, for example, Lettings.  As Lettings usually occur outside of the school working day, physical security can be overlooked or not thought about and so raises the risk of a data breach.  This article is launching our Lettings Checklist for schools which is shown at the end of this article.

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  3. The importance of software updates (PaperCut vulnerability and Rhysida ransomware)
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  5. ICO: 10 Step guide to sharing information to safeguard children
  6. Email and Security: ICO recent guidance
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  8. Data Protection and Cyber Security (Inset Day) Training Ideas
  9. Changes to Microsoft Free Licensing for Schools
  10. What to do in the event of a Cyber Attack
  11. How KCSIE is linked to Cyber Strategy
  12. VICE SOCIETY - Ransomware attacks on schools
  13. Using Tags if you are a group of organisations in the DPE Knowledge Bank
  14. Cyber Insurance in the Public Sector
  15. Cyber Attack: Leytonstone School
  16. The ICO Reprimands a school
  17. Cyber Attack: Dorchester School
  18. Knowledge Bank Role Types: Admin, Staff and Trustee
  19. Cyber Attack: Wiltshire School
  20. Types of Cyber Attacks: The Insider Threat
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  22. Striking Data Breach
  23. January Cyber update - How Can Schools Help Prevent Cyber Attacks?
  24. FOI: Vaccination Justifications
  25. The Education sector now at highest risk of cyber attacks
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