New York State K-12 school districts must follow EdLaw 2-d. We all know that is easier said than done. It is hard work with limited staff and limited resources to properly protect student and staff personally identifiable data while protecting the integrity of the district’s network and making sure there are proper controls to protect […]

Microsoft has tried hard to increase awareness of “pass the hash” attacks. They have been patching, but the threats keep coming. Back in April Microsoft released something quite awesome – their next-generation Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS). Quite simply LAPS allows you to automatically rotate the password for a designated “local administrator” account on endpoints.

The first session will be led by Scott Quimby, CISSP, Vice President and CTO of CSI. He will focus on “Tech Tidbits” providing timely informational updates on industry news and cybersecurity issues impacting the K-12 environment. Watch it here × Please fill the form below

Join us, as Jeff Pigula, CSI Senior Network Engineer (Cisco CCNA and CC-NSF) will be discussing the changing world of PoE power management – what you need to know to keep from being driven crazy with the proliferation of new PoE devices being added to your network.

March marks the month that I have been working with technology professionally for 46 years! It seems like yesterday that as a 16-year-old high school student I got my first part-time job (Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings) talking to people about technology.

This week, I would like to talk to you about Malware Defenses. This topic is in the NIST Detect and Protect categories. Antivirus has been around for what seems like forever. However, as long as antivirus has existed, we have had the problem with getting it on “all” servers and “all” endpoints.

We are pleased to announce our upcoming Tech Talk/SYSOP will be IN PERSON on Wednesday, April 17th! This is the first in-person Tech Talk since the pandemic and we are looking forward to seeing you all there! We encourage you to join Bob Knapp, Scott Quimby, and members of the CSI engineering team in person as they […]

‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ -George Santayana From his work; Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense 1905 You have so many tasks you “must do” to keep your district safe.

What would you do if you came into school tomorrow and were told that all your District’s data had been corrupted? Your next step would be to check in with your IT staff to see if they were clearing your system and restoring your data with a backup.

Now that I work in a hybrid mode, it is always so annoying when I go to the office and forget my office keys. I have to ask someone to let me into my own office. The same is true for all of us techs with admin credentials. We are the ones building, rebuilding, installing, […]