We have had several districts come online with CSI’s CyberCNS Vulnerability Advisory Service. That has given me a substantial amount of vulnerability reports to sift through. One of the nice features of our service is that the vulnerability report not only shows the vulnerabilities, where they are, and how to resolve them, but it also […]

  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.

  As mentioned in last week’s Tech Tidbit, we have begun a new series of weekly bulletins sent to School Business Officials giving them more information on the changing Cybersecurity landscape and how the NIST Cybersecurity Framework can help them increase their security while complying with the Ed Law 2-d guidelines.

  This week I’d like to talk a little bit about the NIST Category – Recover. According to NIST, the Recover Category “identifies appropriate activities to maintain plans for resilience and to restore any capabilities or services that were impaired due to a cybersecurity incident.

In last week’s email, we talked about the second NIST Cybersecurity Framework category – Protect. This week we will be discussing the third category – Detect. Detection seems like it should be pretty straightforward.

In last week’s email, we talked about the first NIST Cybersecurity Framework category – Identify. This week we will be discussing the second category – Protect. The idea of protecting yourself and your network is pretty straightforward general concept.

    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 […]

  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.

  Speaker: Alan Winchester, Chief Development Officer, Caetra.io Alan Winchester is the Chief Development Officer and creator of CyMetric™. His vision is to enable customers overwhelmed with the issues surrounding legal compliance to meet their obligations intuitively and simply, reducing the need to incur the expenses of consultants and lawyers.

  With school districts now required to adopt the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) for managing their IT operations, our district administrative and technology teams have just become responsible for ensuring that approximately 108 technical or management best practice outcomes are occurring each day in their IT operations.