K-12 Cybersecurity: The Role of the School Board The National School Board Association has launched an initiative to educate, advise and provide relevant resources to school board members about cybersecurity. Can your school district answer the following four questions?
1. How many significant cyber incidents has the district experienced in the last few years? 2. How do we measure the sufficiency and effectiveness of our district’s cybersecurity program?
3. How much of our IT budget is being spent on cybersecurity-related activities and risk management? 4. What metrics do we use to evaluate cybersecurity awareness across the district?
Read more about this initiative here.
NSBA Cybersecurity Board Recommendations The K-12 National Advisory Council on Cybersecurity (NACC) established support district and community cybersecurity policies.
School leaders can review the NSBA Cybersecurity Board Recommendations here. Additional cybersecurity resources, including webinars and a newsletter, can be found on the NSBA Cybersecure Schools page.
guidelines for the National School Board Association (NSBA) outlining cybersecurity recommendations school board leaders should consider when developing cybersecurity board policies. The guidelines address how to establish, implement and
Educator Toolkit for Teacher & Student Privacy
behavior in regards to digital citzenship and the protection of personal data. You can access the toolkit using this link. The toolkit supplements the Parent Toolkit for Student Privacy released last year with the Campaign for a Commercial- Free Childhood.
There is a new Educator Toolkit for Teacher & Student Privacy provided by the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy and BATS (Badass Teachers Assocation). The toolkit is a comprehensive guide that enables teachers to address rapidly growing threats to education-related data. It is designed toprovidebest practices and encourages responsible
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