Blogs & Updates

Cyber Security Guidance for School Staff
  July 03 2023

ICT

Our ICT team has put together useful, timely cyber security guidance for school staff.
Incident reporting in schools: how effective are existing processes?
  February 15 2022
This reflective blog is by teamSOS, our incident response solution partners. How effective are runners, emails and radios?
UK Safer Internet Day 2022
  February 08 2022

ICT

As part of UK Safer Internet Day 2022 we'd like to remind our subscribers of the ways that you can keep your students safe online. 
TeamSOS Heron Way Primary School case study
  December 13 2021
An inspiring example of how a Primary School replaced radios with teamSOS for their incident response solution
5 ways teamSOS will help your school next term and beyond
  August 06 2021
Safeguarding, Ransomware, Staff safety and wellbeing, Covid-19… there’s so much to plan for.
Microsoft Teams – Safeguarding Measures
  May 07 2021

ICT

With more and more schools moving over to Microsoft Teams for remote learning in light of COVID-19, safeguarding is very important when students are using Teams.
Guest blog: Safeguarding in the digital age
  April 07 2021

ICT

The last year has proved just how dependant we all are on the internet, with lots of us spending significantly more time online. However not everything we read online is true, we have been concerned by...
The end of Windows 7 and what this means for ICT security
  January 14 2020
As of today, the 14th January 2020, Microsoft will no longer be supporting Windows 7! What does this mean? Microsoft will no longer create and push out Windows updates There will be no more sec...
Schools and Ransomware in 2019 - Guest webinar from Redstor
  September 24 2019

ICT

To inform proactive ICT planning for the 2019/20 academic year, and following our previous guidance on schools and ransomware, this is a blog and accompanying webinar from our expert Online Backup p...
Important: Spam emails
  June 24 2019
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