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Best Practice Updates

🚫🔒 Sensitive data requires a higher level of security under UK GDPR because of its potential to cause significant harm to individuals if it is lost, stolen or misused.  A recent case of a teacher losing their job after accessing a safeguarding report and transcribing it to her personal computer highlights the both the importance for least privilege access and continual review of access.

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 Out of date technology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

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