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Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2022
This Information Technology Specialist Resource List provides resources on understanding the role of information technology specialists in supporting school safety before, during, and after an emergency. Resources are organized into the following categories: (1) Cybersecurity and Cyber Safety Considerations for Schools and Districts; (2)…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Specialists, Role, School Safety
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2020
The purpose of this document is to provide timely and useful best practice information to help education agencies proactively prepare for, appropriately mitigate, and responsibly recover from a cybersecurity incident. This resource reflects lessons learned by the education community and provides recommendations that will help agencies protect…
Descriptors: Information Security, Computer Security, Confidential Records, Information Management
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2017
Schools (public and nonpublic) and school districts face a myriad of challenging hazards and threats. In addition to natural hazards, technological hazards, and biological hazards, they now have to prepare for human-caused cyber threats. These incidents can be accidental or deliberate and disrupt education and critical operations; expose sensitive…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Information Security, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
Richard Andrew True – ProQuest LLC, 2020
A qualitative research study was conducted to identify, describe, and understand the perceptions of administrators of public school districts in northeast Tennessee regarding school safety. Using a semi-structured interview process, the researcher identified emerging themes regarding the factors most associated with safe school districts, the…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Districts, Law Enforcement, Administrator Attitudes
Smith, Gary – School Business Affairs, 2011
School business administrators have long recognized the need for a workable data recovery plan regardless of cause. Yet many have not reassessed their current data backup and recovery capabilities, perhaps because they have not experienced a catastrophic failure. There are three reasons school business administrators may not realize or recognize…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Security, Technology Planning, School Business Officials
Consortium for School Networking (NJ1), 2006
When there is the unexpected disaster of any kind, school personnel, students, parents and communities expect to rely on communication and critical services such as payroll and access to student information the district provides and therefore the technology that supports them. Disaster recovery of IT-related operations and information is critical…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Crisis Management, Natural Disasters, Leadership Responsibility