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The Misbourne School in Great Missenden had to partially shutdown in January due to a cyber attack.  The attack significantly affected its infrastructure and operations.

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The NCA (National Crime Agency) has infiltrated systems belonging to LockBit - the UK has led an operation to disrupt what is thought to be the world's largest criminal ransomware group.  For the last four years, the LockBit group has been hacking into thousands of businesses, schools and medical facilities around the world.

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We recommend completing due diligence on any third party suppliers that you share personal data with.  We recommend that you do this BEFORE purchasing, installing and using the product to share information.  Our Knowledge Bank platform has a Supplier Due Diligence Best Practice area to help with this and lists many suppliers that we have done some generic risk assessments on.  Ensuring due diligence is part of your procurement process for apps means that someone is less likely to

Safer Internet Day in blue text, Tuesday 6 February 2024 in orange text, saferinternetday.org.uk in black text

We couldn't let today go by without mentioning Safer Internet Day when so many of our customers are schools and trusts.  Educators, social workers and other professionals working with children and young people play a key role in supporting children to learn about how to stay safe online.

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The ICO has confirmed a data breach from Kent councils.  The breach was reported by three Kent councils who share the same IT support provider.  Canterbury, Dover and Thanet councils continue to be hampered by the disruptions of onlines services following a cyber incident.

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Did you know that annual cyber security training for school staff is a requirement in the DfE Digital Standards for Schools and Colleges Cyber Security Standards Document?

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The DfE have recently published an update to their meeting digital and technology standards in schools and colleges, with three new sections:
Digital Accessibility Standards
Digital Leadership and Governance Standards
Laptop, desktop and tablet standards

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Security researchers and computing blogs are reporting 'the mother of all breaches' in reference to a data breach where billions of records have been breached.  The dataset doesn't come from one single breach but a compilation of multiple data breaches.  

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A number of schools have reported a data breach by ClassCharts this week.  ClassCharts is school management software that allows teachers to create a customisable classroom seating chart.  It can also be used to track student behaviour, reading levels and other student data.

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Understanding where your data is stored is crucial for both records management (data retention) and retrieving personal data in cases of Subject Access Requests.  This article looks at where Microsoft 365 stores it's data.

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This week the IAPP published a set of AI privacy risks in the wake of concerns over how AI should be regulated.  There are moves to regulate AI, such as the EU AI Act, however  because AI remains quite an unknown quantity, there is a lot of unease and uncertainty around it's use, ethics, privacy and intellectual property.

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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 consideratio

  1. Guardians of Privacy: 15. Navigating Social Media in Educational Settings Summary
  2. Guardians of Privacy: 14. Social Media and Cyber Bullying
  3. Guardians of Privacy: 13. Social Media, Copyright and Intellectual Property
  4. Guardians of Privacy: 12. Social Media and Going Viral
  5. Guardians of Privacy: 11. Staff Social Media Accounts
  6. Guardians of Privacy: 10. Social Media and Cookies
  7. Guardians of Privacy: 9. Social Media and Morality
  8. New Resources for Schools from the ICO
  9. Guardians of Privacy: 8. Social Media Policies
  10. Guardians of Privacy: 7. Social Media Data Retention
  11. Guardians of Privacy: 6. Posting Safely
  12. Guardians of Privacy: 5. Social Media and Consent
  13. Guardians of Privacy: 4. Social Media Access Control
  14. Guardians of Privacy: 3. Social Media Channels
  15. Guardians of Privacy: 2. Law and Regulations
  16. Guardians of Privacy: 1. Social media, privacy and children
  17. Latest ICO Reprimand. Mr. S. Claus, Chief Executive Officer, North Pole Enterprises
  18. Phishing attacks targeting schools - alert from City of London Police
  19. The Data Protection And Digital Information Bill (DPADI)
  20. The ICO reprimands a Multi Academy Trust
  21. KCSIE: Filtering, Monitoring and Privacy
  22. Guidance for the use of school email and applying email retention in schools
  23. CISA and UK NCSC Announce Joint Guidelines for Secure AI System Development
  24. Data Protection Tips for Early Years Settings
  25. Children's Privacy around the world is a puzzle
  26. Trust Initial Plan Checklist Update
  27. Update on Advisory for Rhysida Ransomware
  28. Records Management Best Practice Update
  29. Governors and Data Best Practice Area Update
  30. The Crime in a Cyber Attack and a Data Breach
  31. What do I need to redact?
  32. NCSC Annual Review is published for 2023
  33. Learning from Data Breaches
  34. Windows 11 security ineffective against attacks on old devices
  35. Trust Initial Plan for Data Protection Compliance (for Multi Academy Trusts)
  36. International Counter Ransomware Initiative 2023 Joint Statement
  37. Google for Education Resources: Helping IT Admins meet DfE digital and technology standards
  38. Resistant Cloud Backups
  39. Top Ten Cyber Security Misconfigurations
  40. Lettings Best Practice and Guidance
  41. ICO Reprimand: company suffered a ransomware attack
  42. The UK Online Safety Bill becomes an Act (Law)
  43. Considerations when migrating to a new MIS
  44. The importance of software updates (PaperCut vulnerability and Rhysida ransomware)
  45. Public bodies and sensitive data
  46. Adding offline bulk training using the Certificates function
  47. Ransomware, extortion and the cyber crime ecosystem
  48. ICO: 10 Step guide to sharing information to safeguard children
  49. Schools under Cyber Attack: September 2023
  50. Cyber Resource: The Cyber Resilience Centre Group
  51. Email and Security: ICO recent guidance
  52. Help after a Cyber Attack/Incident
  53. Social Media Policy
  54. Data Protection and Cyber Security (Inset Day) Training Ideas
  55. Changes to Microsoft Free Licensing for Schools
  56. What to do in the event of a Cyber Attack
  57. Cyber Crime: AI Generated Phishing Attacks
  58. Handling Freedom of Information Requests the right way
  59. Cyber Attack: Exam Boards
  60. VICE SOCIETY - Ransomware attacks on schools
  61. Using Tags if you are a group of organisations in the DPE Knowledge Bank
  62. Where's Harry the Hacker?
  63. Be Cyber Aware: USB Sticks
  64. Cyber Insurance in the Public Sector
  65. Types of Cyber Attacks: DDos Attack (Microsoft DDoS Attack in June)
  66. Cyber Attack: Manchester University
  67. Cyber Attack: Leytonstone School
  68. The ICO Reprimands a school
  69. Be Cyber Aware: Firewalls
  70. Subject Access Requests (SARs)
  71. Be Cyber Aware: Cyber attacks and transparency. A no blame culture
  72. Cyber Attack: Dorchester School
  73. Knowledge Bank Role Types: Admin, Staff and Trustee
  74. Types of Cyber Attacks: Password Attacks
  75. Be Cyber Aware: Why regular software updates are important
  76. Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2023
  77. Cyber Attack: Wiltshire School
  78. Keeping your IT systems safe and secure
  79. Types of Cyber Attacks: DDoS Attacks
  80. Types of Cyber Attacks: Phishing
  81. Types of Cyber Attacks: The Insider Threat
  82. Why your data is profitable to cyber criminals
  83. Using WhatsApp in Schools
  84. The Changes to Data Protection in the UK
  85. Knowledge Bank Updates
  86. Types of malware and how they are linked to data protection
  87. Striking Data Breach
  88. Windows Server 2012 & 2012 R2 Retirement
  89. How to contact us for support, subject access requests, data breaches and FOI's
  90. YouTube breached child protection laws
  91. How a school fought back after a cyberattack
  92. Types of Cyber Attacks - Credential Stuffing
  93. January Cyber update - How Can Schools Help Prevent Cyber Attacks?
  94. End of Windows 8.1 Support
  95. Assigning courses to staff using to-dos
  96. How the Record of Processing Can Help You
  97. Information Security Basics: What are VPN's?
  98. What does a Data Protection Officer Do?
  99. Are you ready for a Data Breach?
  100. Blog: Best Practice on the Retention of Child Protection Information
  101. Carrying out Supplier Due Diligence
  102. Email and retention periods
  103. How Long Should You Keep Personal Data For?
  104. The Education sector now at highest risk of cyber attacks
  105. How to Assess your Data Security
  106. Schools Blocked from Using Facial Recognition Systems
  107. Sharing this year’s Nativity play online
  108. A quick introduction to the Phishing Simulation tool
  109. The Children's Code
  110. Recording vaccination of staff
  111. B&H FoI: Racist/religious incidents/bullying
  112. Cyber Attacks
  113. Protocol for Setting Up and Delivery of Online Teaching and Learning
  114. Class Dojo International Data Sharing
  115. Model Publication Scheme: Amendments, Improvements and Updates
  116. Child friendly privacy notices
  117. Transparency
  118. Parents and students covertly recording conversations
  119. SAR? ER? FOI?
  120. Secure file transfer of files using Royal Mail
  121. Emergency contacts and consent
  122. Key elements of a successful DPIA
  123. FOI Publication Schemes
  124. SHARE: Avoid disinformation online
  125. Best Practice for Managing Photos and Video
  126. New Drip Feeds: Recognise and Respond to Subject Access Request
  127. When to contact the Data Protection Officer?
  128. National child measurement programme
  129. Make sure DPE is your registered DPO with the ICO
  130. Compliance Manager released
  131. Headteacher fined for breach of data protection legislation
  132. Emails – good practice and minimising the risk of a data breach
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