Schools (public and nonpublic) and school districts face a myriad of challenging hazards and threats. In addition to natural hazards, technological hazards, and biological hazards, they now have to prepare for human-caused cyber threats. These incidents can be accidental or deliberate and disrupt education and critical operations; expose sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) of students, teachers, and staff; and lead to high recovery costs.
Data and Cybersecurity
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In part three of this three-part series, our guests, Mayank Agarwal andScott Gilhousen discuss cybersecurity in K12 learning.
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Cybersecurity in K12 Education
4 minutes readSafer Ed Episode 4 – show host and guests Frankie Jackson and Jeff Angle discuss cybersecurity challenges and threats in K12 education.
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With the increase in students, teachers, and administrators having to learn and work remotely, there has been an increase in serious k-20 cybersecurity issues.
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Building a Data Culture—Unorthodox Tidbits from a Former Practitioner and Current Data Strategy Consultant
6 minutes readarah Singer has spent the past five years in Education Technology and at PowerSchool is often called upon to discuss the topic of analytics and specifically and how they can be used drive student, school and district success.
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2021 was the year that the world learned to live remotely, the year that everything was on the table, and the phrase, “That’s the way we’ve always done it,” was generally removed from educators’ vocabularies.
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Robert Iskander examines personally identifiable information (PII) as a clear and present danger to every school and every district.