It seems like Cyber Attacks are happening everywhere these days. Whether it’s a national news report of an attack against a company that has your credit card information or local news reporting a school district like yours that’s been hit with a ransomware/data breach, these stories are plentiful.

Everyone knows the adage “No one is perfect”. Unfortunately for anyone with a computer network, the bad actors who want to infiltrate your system are ready to take full advantage of any mistake they can find. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) knows this, as they called out CPG 1.E (Mitigate Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) in […]

Join Cisco and CSI for a very special upcoming webinar. We will be joined by several specialists from Cisco (including Cisco Talos) who will discuss the dangers of spyware, deep links, content manipulation, malware, and keyloggers, and how to protect your school district from these threats.

My wife works for a multi-billion dollar hospital network you all will know. Every time she signs into their mandated VPN and MFA solution she curses out, “How annoying it is to have to do this each time to do anything!” I was the only “IT guy” in earshot to hear her frustration.

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

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.