Articles Tagged with ''k-12 security''

Whitley Schools Kentucky upgrading surveillance system to include analytics

Whitley County Schools in Kentucky installing 125 security cameras

January 20, 2021

Whitley County High School and Middle School in Kentucky will install 125 security cameras to boost surveillance and safety among the two campuses.

5 minutes with Dmitriy Ayrapetov - K-12 cybersecurity challenges

Maria Henriquez

January 19, 2021

In September 2020, a ransomware attack forced 6,000 elementary students to shutdown learning at the Newhall School District. Newhall isn't alone. In addition, Harford Public School, Miami Dade County, Haywood County School district in North Carolina are others that experienced similar circumstances. With ransomware surging nearly 110% and no end in sight for remote learning, the environment is ripe for cyberattacks to escalate. To get some insight, we spoke to Dmitriy Ayrapetov, Vice President of Platform Architecture at SonicWall.

Othello school district adds emergency preparedness training

Othello, Washington school district's risk manager revises emergency preparedness training

January 14, 2021

In all, taking into account the months that students are in the buildings, the district will have 10 emergency drills, eight of them mandated.

American teens are experiencing high rates of anxiety, depression and acts of self-harm

New Navigate360 and Zogby Strategies Safety and Wellbeing Poll shows growing teen anxiety brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on America’s economy, culture, and daily life

January 14, 2021

Only 55% of teens believe that school leaders thought safety was a priority and only 42% thought schools are spending enough time and money to keep students safe, according to a survey conducted by Navigate360 and John Zogby Strategies.

Grand Forks School District in North Dakota receives half million in security grant monies

North Dakota's Grand Forks School District receives $535,000 security grant to improve surveillance

December 22, 2020

The Grand Forks School District in North Dakota received a $535,000 security grant to improve surveillance throughout the district's campuses.

5 minutes with Jake Kouns - K-12 cybersecurity challenges during the pandemic

Maria Henriquez

December 16, 2020

COVID-19 has caused havoc on the schools across the U.S. In the spring, school districts did whatever they could to provide the tools to students to get through the end of the school year. As schools are starting up around the country this month and next month, the challenge school IT departments are having is how to secure all of the devices distributed to students. Here, we talk to Jake Kouns, CEO and CISO for Risk Based Security, where he leads the company’s technology strategy and is responsible for product vision and leadership in the security industry.

CISA identifies data-driven security best practices for K-12 schools in simulation experiment

CISA, MITRE, and GMU collaborated to explore and analyze current and evolving security procedures and technologies to improve school security—primarily against active assailants

December 15, 2020

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a report from a School Security Simulation Experiment (SIMEX) focused on current security procedures and technologies to improve both physical and operational security in K-12 schools. The two-week SIMEX, conducted jointly with MITRE and George Mason University in August, served as a pilot to determine whether a SIMEX is a viable tool that can be used to evaluate policies, technologies, and procedures related to school safety in the future.

Oxford Connecticut schools to implement security operations center (SOC) and mass notification system

Oxford, Connecticut public schools receive grant to build security operations center overseeing campuses

December 14, 2020

The town of Oxford, Connecticut and its public schools will receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Services to create a security operations center (SOC) with three personnel monitoring the district's four school campuses.

Cybercriminals targeting K-12 distance learning education to cause disruptions and steal data

December 11, 2020

A new Joint Cybersecurity Advisory, coauthored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), assess malicious cyber actors are targeting kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) educational institutions, leading to ransomware attacks, the theft of data, and the disruption of distance learning services.

Virginia gets $12 million in security grants for schools

Virginia schools obtain $12 million in security grants

December 7, 2020

489 Virginia-area schools in 102 school divisions will share $12 million in security grant funding from the state's department of education. The grants will include monies for video monitoring systems, voice and video internal communications systems, school bus interior cameras, mass notification systems, visitor-identification systems, access control systems, two-way radios, security vestibules and other security upgrades.

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