Tag Archives: security

Purple power, STEAM and IT security

Excellent presentation from SSS to WEGC students as part of STEAM Day and Purple Power week. Four women speakers from SSS presented information to students about ICT security, their roles, and pathways to current careers. Hopefully inspires some of our … Continue reading

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Schools need help with IT security

Following a recent cyber attack on Hutt Valley High School, I was reminded that our school was overdue for a formal review of security and backup procedures. Informal reviews have been undertaken and assurances by our outsourced IT vendor provided, … Continue reading

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N4L promoting inspection of HTTPS traffic

In a recent issue of Interface there is an important article discussing the merits of N4L being able to inspect HTTPS traffic (involving installation of SSL certificates to BYOD devices). The arguments, primarily around student safety, mirror those of a wider debate … Continue reading

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Plenty of Security advice for Public Service

  There is plenty of advice on how to do security in the Public Sector, just no time to read and understand it!

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Déjà vu

With the recent release of reports on Government IT security and Novapay some of us that have worked in the Public Sector will be experiencing déjà vu. Hindsight is wonderful you may say… but we could have written the Novapay report … Continue reading

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Facebook dunce

I have been showing students the above as a lesson in both: 1. Computer security. Reminding them not to forget to logout: “its not just your email and files at risk it’s your Facebook account”. 2. Testing systems is important. People will … Continue reading

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