Cyber Security for Schools
Have your computers been hacked?
Best practices for protecting school data.
Pamela McLeod
"Confidential information on all computers is at risk. Often common sense can reduce that risk."
Pam McLeod Head of Technology
Concord School District, NH
In this new 55-minute DVD (June 2015) Pamela McLeod, Head of Technology of the Concord, NH School District, outlines the cyber threats that threaten school computers both from outside the school building and from within and how to detect them and defeat them. Pam was School Technology Leader of the Year 2012.
You will learn:
- How you can discover if your computer or computers have been hacked.
- How to cleanse a computer after hacking.
- Where the cyber attacks come from.
- Why you should not rely on firewalls.
- How to defeat ransomware.
- Recognize unauthorized intrusions.
- The best practices for creating a password.
- The need for continual training.
- The best method to protect confidential information from hackers.
- It is imperative to have a reaction policy in place.
Your website is frozen by ransomware. One NJ School District was asked for $125,000.
What would you do?
- Pay to free it?
- Leave it and start of new website?
- There is a better way (Buy this DVD)
- It is called spear-phishing.
- Best defense is non-technology training
- There are clear signs (Buy this DVD)
- An extraordinary number of passwords are found by hackers in a very non-technological manner.
- Hackers can be on a computer for years unless discovered.
- Without a reaction policy there is often chaos when a system has been penetrated.
- Beware of thumb drives.
- Cyber attacks have increased 400% in the last year. Be prepared.
- Staff, teachers and students should be aware of the 5 top social media scams that hackers use.
- Do not rely on a firewall for cyber security – they can be circumvented. Every computer in every school is at risk!
Nothing is changing faster than the frequency and sophistication of cyber-attacks and computer hacking directed at government agencies at all levels. As the F.B.I. noted on April 22, 2015.
DVD Price: $95.00
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