In last week’s email, we talked about what the NIST Cybersecurity Framework was, how it would help your district manage its Cyber Risk, and its alignment with Ed Law 2-d. Just as a reminder, there are five high-level categories that help organize the NIST CSF: IDENTIFY PROTECT DETECT RESPOND RECOVER Today we will […]
NIST Cybersecurity Framework – Identify
NIST Cybersecurity Framework and You
Your district is faced with ever-increasing threats, pressures, and regulations. The list is endless. K-12 Cyberattacks continue to increase with devastating consequences. The requirements of Ed Law 2-d must be addressed. The Cyber insurance industry is running scared and requiring ever-increasing documentation and proof you are even “insurance worthy”. It is completely crazy.
Tech Tidbit – My wild ride through London – Tighten up your security controls inside your network
I learned to drive “on the wrong side of the road” on a Monday morning in downtown London. I hit my first object in about 50 feet when I ran over the cross beam of a crowd fence and it bounced up and tapped my car. It was scary, but I eventually got to the […]
Tech Tidbit – I am proud of you
Late in the afternoon on a Friday, I created a bit of a scare for those of you who are part of our Paladin Sentinel monitoring system. I was doing my due diligence removing a monitoring policy we experimented with after our last major system upgrade, but didn’t provide any value to us or you.
Tech Tidbit – Let’s Talk About Security – We Will Come To You!
We have recently been approached by many school districts to talk to their district office staff and in some instances their faculty about phishing and security as it relates to money and personally identifiable information (PII). These have been in the form of either special in-service training for district office/business office staff or as part […]
Tech Tidbit – Our Hours Are Your Hours
If you subscribe to our Paladin Sentinel monitoring service, hopefully, you know that either myself or one of our technical staff actively sweeps through the monitoring consoles sometime between 6 am to 7 am with the goal of identifying any major issues such as site, building or device down before 7 am.
CSEDR Update – How SentinelOne agents do what they do
Occasionally the SentinelOne agents included in our CSEDR offering are operating but show a red “x” denoting that the agent is operational, but not visible to the main SentinelOne console. SentinelOne has updated their agents to better explain why they are not communicating.
Tech Tidbit – Do you understand DoH? Steps you need to take now to prevent chaos with your web filtering
We have a new technology coming online with all the popular web browsers. It is called DNS over HTTPS or DoH. The concept is instead of using your internal DNS to resolve web pages, the web browser goes back to an external DNS site to resolve the page.
Tech Tidbit – Ransomware is getting a whole lot nastier
We all understand the scourge of Ransomware. It is debilitating. Even in the best case, it consumes a huge amount of time to recover. However, now the bad guys are getting even more nasty. They want their money. If you decide you can recover or don’t care, they get nothing.
Tech Tidbit – You don’t have to be faster than the bear….
“You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.” ― Jim Butcher Recently we had the former White House Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) on our webinar talking about the Ukrainian war and its impact on us.