CYBERSECURITY FOCUS FOR IT

IT Managers from all ASC schools participated in two days of school tours and a range of professional workshops in Perth.

The group visited two schools which provided different IT challenges, noting the complexities of delivering IT services for students at St George’s Anglican Grammar School in the city across multiple city sites, and at St Mark’s Anglican Community School, with a large campus with more than 4000 devices on a network.

Cybersecurity was a key focal point, with workshops held by Solutions IT on the use of Microsoft’s Defender platform to mitigate and prevent cyber security attacks and threats; and by R1i Technology on the Cisco Meraki environment and how Schools can monitor all their network systems.

Honeylight Consulting’s Chief Technical Officer (CTO) David Vo presented on the current cybersecurity landscape, the risks faced by schools, and ways that schools can protect their environments.

ASC partners, 5G Networks, also presented the CyberAware Essential 8 auditing tool that assists schools with their compliance with the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential 8 Framework. Finally, IT Managers discussed future plans for document and record retention as well as the interaction between their Microsoft environments and the ASC’s environment. ASC Director of Technology Shane Parnell presented on leadership development and how they lead their teams.