Summer works
Housekeeping
We know the summer is a great time to work on IT projects while teachers and students are away. We appreciate that for support teams this is not a holiday, so why not combine efforts by reviewing security and who has admin rights part of your annual roll-up process? It's also a great opportunity to review and test your Major Incident Response plans.
Security Patching
Criminals schedule cyberattacks when people are busy and stressed. For example, around the end of the financial year, major public holidays, or significant events. If you have any outstanding updates now is a great time to make sure all your systems are up to date.
Donated Devices
If one of the things on your summer to-do list is setting up donated devices, why not read this guidance from the NCSC to ensure that they're properly prepared before being used in school.