Last weekend my youngest daughter started a new baton program on Saturday mornings. Sitting there I realized I have been taking at least one of my four daughters to baton for the last 22 years across two different teams in two different towns.

  How do you intend to block lateral movement if an attacker has made it into your network? In looking at recent ransomware attacks there are some consistent attack vectors used for lateral movement that are almost always exploited.

  I am sitting here at 6 am doing the morning review of all our Paladin Sentinel Monitoring school districts. The storm came overnight and there are lots of noisy UPSes, but thankfully it is a pretty boring morning. Boring is good.

  Add the last “S” for security. I remember the old mattress commercials. You left the last “S” of the phone number for savings. In our world, we need to always make sure we have the last “S” for security. In our world, any internet-facing connection simply must use a commercial SSL (i.e. VPN, Secure […]

In today’s school environment, everyone and almost every piece of equipment talks to the internet and run on your network. Your HVAC system, security cameras, phones, bus cameras and communication, attendance, payroll, and many of your teaching tools are all connected to the internet.