What Do Schools Need to Know to Recognize a Social Engineering Attack?

November 21, 2022

Cybersecurity is a high priority for K–12 administrators and IT leaders. It was the No. 1 technology pain point for survey respondents in the Consortium for School Networking’s “EdTech Trends and Funding: A CoSN Member Survey 2022.” The survey also found 83 percent of districts planned to expand cybersecurity initiatives.
An increased need for cybersecurity has led to a call for additional funding for this educational priority. While schools are investing in technologies to keep their infrastructure and information safe, some experts recommend an additional route to better protection.
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Checklist: Should Your K–12 School District Delay Making Networking Upgrades?

Upgrading networks is a major priority for K—12 school districts. According to the 2022 EdTech Leadership Survey Report from the Consortium for School Networking, respondents shared that network…

May 27, 2022

CoSN22: Leaders Speak on Educational Equity Through Tech in Conference Keynote

The Consortium for School Networking kicked off its annual conference Monday in Nashville, Tenn., with a keynote session featuring three leaders in policy, education and technology. Musician…

Team LOKGEN April 12, 2022

CoSN2022: Leaders Speak on Educational Equity Through Tech in Conference Keynote

The Consortium for School Networking kicked off its annual conference Monday in Nashville, Tenn., with a keynote session featuring three leaders in policy, education and technology. Musician…

Team LOKGEN April 12, 2022

Canary Technologies, which offers hotels guest management and other tools, raised a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $45M (Kathryn Walson/PhocusWire)

Kathryn Walson / PhocusWire:
Canary Technologies, which offers hotels guest management and other tools, raised a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $45M — Hospitality tech company Canary Technologies has secured $30 million in Series B funding to expand its team to keep pace with global demand …

October 30, 2022

Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open and decentralized social networking protocol powering Mastodon, Instagram-like Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open and decentralized social networking protocol powering Mastodon, Instagram-like Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others — Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that’s today powering social networking software …

November 22, 2022

Versa Networks, which helps companies unify network and security tools into a single console, raised $120M in equity and debt, bringing its funding to $316M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Versa Networks, which helps companies unify network and security tools into a single console, raised $120M in equity and debt, bringing its funding to $316M — Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank.

October 27, 2022

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