I have a chronic issue with people’s ability to close doors securely. The issue is at home, and it spans all ages. I am constantly finding sliding doors ajar or the front door not closed. As some of you know I rescue English Springer Spaniels – aka bird dogs.

Today is a flash drill exercise. You are experiencing the blizzard of 2025. The Governor and County Executive have declared a state of emergency. The roads are closed. The snow keeps piling up. Your district data center is operational, and you have generator backup.

Cyber risk is growing every day. CSI wants to get you the information you need to know. We invite you to spend a day learning about the cybersecurity threats and data privacy challenges facing schools today and how they could impact your district. With breakfast and lunch provided, it’s also a great way to network […]

At 5:30 am one morning, I was awoken by the sound of fire trucks. My neighbor’s house diagonally behind my house was on fire. The fire department promptly arrived within 15 minutes of the 911 call. Sadly, my neighbor died in the fire.

I remember those days when the Apple folks would scoff at having to have antivirus. Macs were superior, and Windows devices had all those problems. The technical folks knew that was marketing blather vs. sound security advice. The reality has always been that “everything can be hacked.

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, […]

Cyber risk is growing every day. In 2022 K-12 education was the single most targeted industry for ransomware. CSI wants to get you the information you need to know. Spend a day learning about the cybersecurity threats and data privacy challenges facing schools today and how they could impact your district.

Today we continue with our series discussing the highest priority cybersecurity steps as identified in the January 2023 CISA published report “Partnering to SafeGuard K-12 Organizations from Cybersecurity Threats.

As we mentioned in our last bulletin, in January 2023 CISA published a report “Partnering to SafeGuard K-12 Organizations from Cybersecurity Threats”. In that report, CISA suggested that schools start their Cybersecurity journey by implementing six of the Highest-priority security measures.

In last week’s email, we talked about the third NIST Cybersecurity Framework category – Detect. This week we will be discussing the fourth category – Respond. As with Protect, the general idea of Respond seems pretty clear-cut.