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 Out of date technology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

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