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.
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.
The latest on ransomware in schools - via teamSOS
  July 01 2021

ICT

4 things you can do now to prevent Ransomware disrupting learning.
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...
Advice for schools on the Ransomware crisis
  May 15 2017

ICT

Following the recent NHS Ransomware crisis, as well as many other organisations being impacted, we feel it is important to send out an update on this subject. As covered in our previous blogs, ther...
Ransomware latest - Schools targetted by fraudulent calls
  January 10 2017

ICT

According to the police, "fraudsters are posing as government officials in order to trick people into installing ransomware which encrypts files on victims’ computers." Further to our previous adv...
Latest advice for schools on ransomware
  December 19 2016

ICT

Ransomware is an aggressive form of computer virus that targets your server, encrypts files and then demands a ransom for their release. The technology driving ransomware - such as the CryptoLocker ...
How to stay safe from ransomware
  June 19 2015

ICT

"Ransomware, it’s everywhere. We had hoped that the notorious file-encrypting ransomware called CryptoLocker was defeated after law enforcement knocked out its infrastructure last year, but Cry...