Protecting your Digital Technology

Keep up to date - review: 

Plan Ahead – keeping ICT infrastructure up to date, upgraded, patched and secure is a vital part of managing your school. 

Review – Do this regularly and work with your ICT support service to understand what needs addressing and when. Budget on a 3-year plan and allow for contingencies and rising ICT costs.

Take Action – ICT replacement, maintenance and security are essential for protecting your data. Heed advice from your ICT Support service.

How can we help your school? 

We offer a range of services that can help protect your schools digital technology: 

Anti-Virus and Threat Protection Service (Sophos Central)

The Anti-Virus and Threat Protection Service (Sophos Central) provides schools with licences for a comprehensive suite of technologies to protect your school's devices from a wide variety of threats. Sophos Central is a cloud-hosted security suite that provides schools access to modern security tools and protection.

Click here find out more about our Anti-Virus and Threat Protection Service (Sophos Central) for information on the features included in our subscription bundle.

Broadband Network - Security Features

Our schools, broadband network is a private wide-area network (WAN), which is connected to the Higher Education JANET network and benefits from JISC CSIRT security benefits and features: 

  1. Our broadband network firewall is a network security device that monitors traffic to or from your network. It allows or blocks traffic based on a defined set of security rules.
  2. Security Monitoring: JISC CSIRT provides extra security monitoring to help protect educational institutions in the UK.
  3. Incident Management: Lancashire County Council Education Digital Services works with JISC CSIRT to manage any security incidents or risks identified, ensuring the safety of schools and students.
  4. DDoS Protection (Distributed Denial-of-Service): Schools connected to our broadband network get additional protection against DDoS attacks, thanks to JISC CSIRT.
  5. Liaison: In case of any cyber incidents, Lancashire County Council liaises with JISC CSIRT on behalf of the schools to handle the situation.

To find out more about our Broadband network visit our Broadband and Online Services page for information on the features included in our subscription bundle.

Firewalls

Our broadband network firewall offers Dual ISP (Internet Service Provider) grade firewalls located at different data centres. These give excellent protection, performance and resilience. 

To find out more about our Broadband network visit our Broadband and Online Services page for information on the features included in our subscription bundle.

Dell Open Manage Essentials & Enterprise (DOME)

For schools that purchase servers through us, DOME allows us to monitor your server hardware and to apply updates to firmware and drivers. Where possible we will use DOME to monitor your server and proactively address imminent hardware failures before they occur, minimising disruption to schools. We will also update drivers and firmware on Dell servers helping maintain reliability and minimise disruption.

Learn more about the service, benefits and what's included here: Technical Support Visits for Curriculum Networks.