Five Questions K–12 IT Leaders Should Ask About Disaster Recovery Configurations

June 8, 2022

When disaster strikes — a fire, flood, hurricane, earthquake, cyberattack — does your school have the configurations for your key IT infrastructure at the ready? After the unthinkable happens, you’ll need to know that you have good system backups and a tested plan in place to quickly restore them.
Are You Verifying Good Backups?
Backups are all too often taken for granted. Backup systems can lose access to key information because of changes to security schemes. They can run out of space, preventing key data from being archived. Administrators can lose track of decryption keys, making an…

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Google expands its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services, adding a Flood Hub globally and improved wildfire tracking in more countries (Justine Calma/The Verge)

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Google expands its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services, adding a Flood Hub globally and improved wildfire tracking in more countries — Google announced a big expansion of its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services today. It launched a tool called Flood Hub globally …

November 2, 2022

GiveDirectly and Google.org are using AI mapping and satellite imagery to find low-income hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico and Florida and send cash payments (Adele Peters/Fast Company)

Adele Peters / Fast Company:
GiveDirectly and Google.org are using AI mapping and satellite imagery to find low-income hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico and Florida and send cash payments — Storms worsen inequality. These $700 cash payments can help lessen the blow. — After a disaster like Hurricane Ian …

October 9, 2022

Amazon updates its Fire TV lineup with a new $140 Fire TV Cube media player, Fire TV Omni QLED Series starting at $800, and a new $35 Alexa Voice Remote Pro (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon updates its Fire TV lineup with a new $140 Fire TV Cube media player, Fire TV Omni QLED Series starting at $800, and a new $35 Alexa Voice Remote Pro — Amazon today introduced two new Fire TV devices designed to cater to customers seeking a more premium experience.

September 28, 2022

Australian telecom Optus suffers a cyberattack, potentially giving the hacker access to data on up to 9.8M customers, per the CEO; the police are investigating (Alice Uribe/Wall Street Journal)

Alice Uribe / Wall Street Journal:
Australian telecom Optus suffers a cyberattack, potentially giving the hacker access to data on up to 9.8M customers, per the CEO; the police are investigating — Australian telecoms company says mass breach could have exposed birth dates, phone numbers and other personal data

September 23, 2022

What Is Backup as a Service (BaaS), and Should K–12 Schools Consider It?

Every 11 seconds, bad actors use ransomware to attack the data-rich education sector, targeting school districts nationwide. Earlier this year, schools in New Mexico closed for two days when a hack compromised data on emergency contacts and the names of adults authorized to pick up students from school.
With the increased risk to school data and operations, how can districts protect themselves?
One solution is to invest in Backup as a Service, a managed cybersecurity and data center solution. BaaS can help districts ensure they have up-to-date and prepared backups in place in the event of a…

November 17, 2022

Akeyless, which helps companies manage passwords, certificates, and API keys, raised $65M Series B, comprising $45.5M in equity and $19.5B in debt, led by NGP (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Akeyless, which helps companies manage passwords, certificates, and API keys, raised $65M Series B, comprising $45.5M in equity and $19.5B in debt, led by NGP — Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys …

November 16, 2022

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