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.
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.
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...
Malware discovered on laptops provided by government
  January 22 2021
It has been brought to our attention that Malware has been found on school laptops given out by government. What is the latest? Teachers have reported suspicious files and the Department for Educa...
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
.enforcedisplay { display: block!important; } We are seeing an increasing number of spam emails slip through the spam filtering net into users' inboxes. Typically these spam emails come from use...
Email security update for schools
  February 07 2019
It has been brought to our attention that we have had a couple of instances where a rule has been set up within Microsoft Outlook email client to forward all emails to a different email address. We...
Schools receiving generic terrorism hoax email
  March 19 2018

MIS

Please be advised that schools have received emails today claiming that there is a student onsite with a bomb and are demanding $5,000. We have contacted the anti-terrorism unit and they are treatin...