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Cisco is trying to do their part during the Pandemic. If you are a Cisco AMP, Cisco DUO, Cisco Umbrella, or Cisco AnyConnect client, Cisco is allowing you to increase your license counts – without cost to the district – until July 1, 2020.  This allows you to truly do the right thing for all […]

The reality of many K-12 school districts is that you either have handed out or are handing out laptops to teachers and critical staff to get through this quarantine.   All those great tools you had been using: WSUS, SCCM, and KACE are now functionally useless for those remote users.

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These have been extraordinary times for the world, our country, our school districts and our families.  We are implementing remote learning plans and remote access plans to keep the district functioning in this time of social distancing, crowd restrictions and mandated closings.

Earlier this month, on March 2, NIST formalized a significant number of changes to its password recommendations as part of the final release of its updated Digital Identify Guidelines document or NIST publication SP 800-63-3.  The full document which includes three additional sister documents (800-63A, 800-63B & 800-63C) is here: https://csrc.

As part of our client school district’s response for Corona virus preparedness, we see an uptick in requests for VPN access into the school district’s networks.  With the potential increase in VPN users and remote connections into your district’s systems, we thought now would be a good time to remind you of a few best practices […]

This morning I read the headline that a second New York school district has shutdown over Coronavirus concerns.  The question becomes how does a school district function if school is closed for an extended period of time?   Besides the obvious impacts to teaching and learning there is a whole lot of back office processes that […]

Microsoft has announced they are tightening the security standards for LDAP communications on Microsoft Active Directory networks.  This has huge implications as there are so many things in a typical school district’s use that require some form of LDAP communication.

In the continuing quest to battle ransomware in our networks, as well as other types of malware, just this month (Jan 2020) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a brand-new guide to assist in this battle.

Happy New Year!   Unfortunately, there is no rest for the weary fighting the battle to keep everyone safe. Today I read a couple of scary articles: “Couple says their Smart Home was hacked” Most of you are installing all of these IoT, IP enabled devices throughout your network.