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The DfE have published several updates to the DfE Digital Standards, updating the Filtering and Monitoring Standards, the Digital Leadership & Governance Standards and the Broadband Internet Standards for Schools and Colleges. We give our view on what that means and more details about the updates.

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In a Malwarebytes blog, author Mark Beare explains how your child's data can be stolen, and even more so if you have given medical  or health data.

  1. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 17. Access Control (Users)
  2. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 16. Access Control (Wi-Fi/Network access)
  3. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 15. Access Control (working from home/off site)
  4. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 14. Access Control (MFA)
  5. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 13. Awareness
  6. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 12. Training
  7. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 11. Policies and Procedures
  8. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 10. Assess where you are with cyber security
  9. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 9. A guide for education providers
  10. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 8. How can your organisation prevent Ransomware attacks?
  11. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 7. What does a Ransomware attack on a school look like?
  12. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 6. Cyber Action Plan
  13. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 5. Responsibilities
  14. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 4. What to do in a cyber attack
  15. DfE Digital Standards Webinars
  16. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 3. Data Security
  17. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 2. Privacy Protection
  18. Ofqual highlights the value of cyber security training in schools
  19. Searching for data when you receive a Subject Access Request
  20. Fylde Coast Academy Trust Cyber Attack This Week
  21. Calling all IT leads in schools and mult academy trusts!
  22. Ransomware cyber attack on a school in Bromley
  23. Join Our Social Media Family!
  24. School hit by Cyber Attack
  25. New Academic Year Kick-Off!
  26. New e-learning for 2024
  27. DfE Digital Standards for Schools and Colleges Tracker
  28. New Policies, Documents, Letters and Posters page
  29. Schools and Trusts Best Practice Area
  30. The DPE Retention Schedule
  31. Making the Rounds Update (now includes reporting)
  32. ESFA Cyber Essentials Requirement for Colleges from 2024/2025
  33. ICO Reprimands a School
  34. How does the recent global IT outage affect me?
  35. King's speech introduces new bills in relation to cyber security, smart data and digital information
  36. Navigating Privacy at the End of Term , Special Occasions and End of Year
  37. Out of date technology
  38. Data Retention and the Pupil File
  39. Have you assigned your SLT Digital Lead yet?
  40. What's a Cyber Incident and what should we do?
  41. Getting Started with AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  42. Cyber attack on a school during half term
  43. Free short cyber training for staff
  44. UPDATE: The Upcoming Election and The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
  45. Update to the DfE Digital Cyber Security Standards for Schools and Colleges (May 2024)
  46. The rise of cyber attacks in schools are causing pupils to miss classes
  47. ICO: Learning from the mistakes of others report
  48. Children's mental health data leaked after a cyber attack
  49. Cyber attack on a Trust; the aftermath
  50. School Focus: The Vale Federation | Aylesbury
  51. DfE Dealing with Subject Access Requests (SARs) Guidance
  52. Update to the Guidance on Information Sharing from the DfE
  53. Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024 (Education Institutions)
  54. Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024 (Businesses and Charities)
  55. FOI Requests generated by Artificial Intelligence
  56. Social Media Best Practice Area
  57. Lettings Best Practice Area
  58. Appropriate filtering and monitoring definitions
  59. MFA Bombing - What is it?
  60. Protecting your Social Media Accounts
  61. Why we recommend using checklists
  62. Product Focus on Checklists : Initial Trust Plan
  63. Product Focus on Checklists : End of Term Checklist
  64. Product Focus on Checklists : Information and Cyber Security
  65. Product Focus on Checklists : Social Media
  66. Cyber Incident Review: The Benefits
  67. Product Focus on Checklists : Lettings
  68. Product Focus on Checklists : Record of Processing
  69. Milk Island: The secret location that allows children to view restricted content on Google Maps
  70. Why Data Should Stay Put: Benefits of Keeping Data in Its Original System
  71. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Retention and Destruction
  72. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Migration
  73. Product Focus on Checklists : Biometrics
  74. Product Focus on Checklists : Supplier Due Diligence
  75. Free Cyber help, advice and training with the Cyber Resilience Centres
  76. The Perils of Paper: The Printing Vulnerability
  77. Product Focus on Checklists : FOI
  78. Product Focus on Checklists : Governors and Data
  79. Product Focus on Checklists : DPIA
  80. Product Focus on Checklists : Site Moves
  81. Product Focus on Checklists : Data Breaches
  82. Product Focus on Checklists : Subject Access Requests
  83. Cyber attack on a University
  84. Product Focus on Checklists : Bring your own device
  85. Product Focus on Checklists : Working out of school/offsite
  86. Cyber Attack on a School
  87. Product Focus on Checklists : Redaction
  88. Major cyber-criminal gang Lockbit brought down by UK Law Enforcement
  89. Why Due Diligence is Important: Fake apps
  90. Product Focus on Checklists : CCTV
  91. Product Focus on Checklists : Clear desk
  92. Product Focus on Checklists : Commitment to compliance
  93. Product Focus on Checklists : Photos and video
  94. Product Focus on Checklists : Passwords
  95. Product Focus on Checklists : Information Classification
  96. Safer Internet Day 2024
  97. Kent Councils Data Breach
  98. Free cyber training for staff
  99. DfE Digital Standards Update
  100. The Mother of all Breaches
  101. ClassCharts Possible Data Breach
  102. Where is your data stored?
  103. IAPP looks at AI privacy risks
  104. If you suspect a financial scam .....
  105. Guardians of Privacy: 16. Social Media Checklist
  106. Guardians of Privacy: 15. Navigating Social Media in Educational Settings Summary
  107. Guardians of Privacy: 14. Social Media and Cyber Bullying
  108. Guardians of Privacy: 13. Social Media, Copyright and Intellectual Property
  109. Guardians of Privacy: 12. Social Media and Going Viral
  110. Guardians of Privacy: 11. Staff Social Media Accounts
  111. Guardians of Privacy: 10. Social Media and Cookies
  112. Guardians of Privacy: 9. Social Media and Morality
  113. New Resources for Schools from the ICO
  114. Guardians of Privacy: 8. Social Media Policies
  115. Guardians of Privacy: 7. Social Media Data Retention
  116. Guardians of Privacy: 6. Posting Safely
  117. Guardians of Privacy: 5. Social Media and Consent
  118. Guardians of Privacy: 4. Social Media Access Control
  119. Guardians of Privacy: 3. Social Media Channels
  120. Guardians of Privacy: 2. Law and Regulations
  121. Guardians of Privacy: 1. Social media, privacy and children
  122. Latest ICO Reprimand. Mr. S. Claus, Chief Executive Officer, North Pole Enterprises
  123. Phishing attacks targeting schools - alert from City of London Police
  124. The Data Protection And Digital Information Bill (DPADI)
  125. The ICO reprimands a Multi Academy Trust
  126. KCSIE: Filtering, Monitoring and Privacy
  127. Guidance for the use of school email and applying email retention in schools
  128. CISA and UK NCSC Announce Joint Guidelines for Secure AI System Development
  129. Data Protection Tips for Early Years Settings
  130. Children's Privacy around the world is a puzzle
  131. Trust Initial Plan Checklist Update
  132. Update on Advisory for Rhysida Ransomware
  133. Records Management Best Practice Update
  134. Governors and Data Best Practice Area Update
  135. The Crime in a Cyber Attack and a Data Breach
  136. What do I need to redact?
  137. NCSC Annual Review is published for 2023
  138. Learning from Data Breaches
  139. Windows 11 security ineffective against attacks on old devices
  140. Trust Initial Plan for Data Protection Compliance (for Multi Academy Trusts)
  141. International Counter Ransomware Initiative 2023 Joint Statement
  142. Google for Education Resources: Helping IT Admins meet DfE digital and technology standards
  143. Resistant Cloud Backups
  144. Top Ten Cyber Security Misconfigurations
  145. Lettings Best Practice and Guidance
  146. ICO Reprimand: company suffered a ransomware attack
  147. The UK Online Safety Bill becomes an Act (Law)
  148. Considerations when migrating to a new MIS
  149. The importance of software updates (PaperCut vulnerability and Rhysida ransomware)
  150. Public bodies and sensitive data
  151. Adding offline bulk training using the Certificates function
  152. Ransomware, extortion and the cyber crime ecosystem
  153. ICO: 10 Step guide to sharing information to safeguard children
  154. Schools under Cyber Attack: September 2023
  155. Cyber Resource: The Cyber Resilience Centre Group
  156. Email and Security: ICO recent guidance
  157. Help after a Cyber Attack/Incident
  158. Social Media Policy
  159. Data Protection and Cyber Security (Inset Day) Training Ideas
  160. Changes to Microsoft Free Licensing for Schools
  161. What to do in the event of a Cyber Attack
  162. Cyber Crime: AI Generated Phishing Attacks
  163. Handling Freedom of Information Requests the right way
  164. Cyber Attack: Exam Boards
  165. VICE SOCIETY - Ransomware attacks on schools
  166. Using Tags if you are a group of organisations in the DPE Knowledge Bank
  167. Where's Harry the Hacker?
  168. Be Cyber Aware: USB Sticks
  169. Cyber Insurance in the Public Sector
  170. Types of Cyber Attacks: DDos Attack (Microsoft DDoS Attack in June)
  171. Cyber Attack: Manchester University
  172. Cyber Attack: Leytonstone School
  173. The ICO Reprimands a school
  174. Be Cyber Aware: Firewalls
  175. Subject Access Requests (SARs)
  176. Be Cyber Aware: Cyber attacks and transparency. A no blame culture
  177. Cyber Attack: Dorchester School
  178. Knowledge Bank Role Types: Admin, Staff and Trustee
  179. Types of Cyber Attacks: Password Attacks
  180. Be Cyber Aware: Why regular software updates are important
  181. Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2023
  182. Cyber Attack: Wiltshire School
  183. Keeping your IT systems safe and secure
  184. Types of Cyber Attacks: DDoS Attacks
  185. Types of Cyber Attacks: Phishing
  186. Types of Cyber Attacks: The Insider Threat
  187. Why your data is profitable to cyber criminals
  188. Using WhatsApp in Schools
  189. The Changes to Data Protection in the UK
  190. Knowledge Bank Updates
  191. Types of malware and how they are linked to data protection
  192. Striking Data Breach
  193. Windows Server 2012 & 2012 R2 Retirement
  194. How to contact us for support, subject access requests, data breaches and FOI's
  195. YouTube breached child protection laws
  196. How a school fought back after a cyberattack
  197. Types of Cyber Attacks - Credential Stuffing
  198. January Cyber update - How Can Schools Help Prevent Cyber Attacks?
  199. End of Windows 8.1 Support
  200. Assigning courses to staff using to-dos
  201. How the Record of Processing Can Help You
  202. Information Security Basics: What are VPN's?
  203. What does a Data Protection Officer Do?
  204. Are you ready for a Data Breach?
  205. Blog: Best Practice on the Retention of Child Protection Information
  206. Carrying out Supplier Due Diligence
  207. Email and retention periods
  208. How Long Should You Keep Personal Data For?
  209. The Education sector now at highest risk of cyber attacks
  210. How to Assess your Data Security
  211. Schools Blocked from Using Facial Recognition Systems
  212. Sharing this year’s Nativity play online
  213. A quick introduction to the Phishing Simulation tool
  214. The Children's Code
  215. Recording vaccination of staff
  216. B&H FoI: Racist/religious incidents/bullying
  217. Cyber Attacks
  218. Protocol for Setting Up and Delivery of Online Teaching and Learning
  219. Class Dojo International Data Sharing
  220. Model Publication Scheme: Amendments, Improvements and Updates
  221. Child friendly privacy notices
  222. Transparency
  223. Parents and students covertly recording conversations
  224. SAR? ER? FOI?
  225. Secure file transfer of files using Royal Mail
  226. Emergency contacts and consent
  227. Key elements of a successful DPIA
  228. FOI Publication Schemes
  229. SHARE: Avoid disinformation online
  230. Best Practice for Managing Photos and Video
  231. New Drip Feeds: Recognise and Respond to Subject Access Request
  232. When to contact the Data Protection Officer?
  233. National child measurement programme
  234. Make sure DPE is your registered DPO with the ICO
  235. Compliance Manager released
  236. Headteacher fined for breach of data protection legislation
  237. Emails – good practice and minimising the risk of a data breach

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