Preventing attacks: is your cyber security up to scratch?

Seminar brief: Schools and colleges are increasingly being faced with cyber attacks and cyber incidents. This mirrors the global trend of increasing levels of cyber threats and comes at a time when the pandemic is driving more and better use of technology in schools. So, what can schools, school leaders and their IT staff do to be prepared?

In this seminar Gary Henderson will explore: 

• Cyber security trends and recent incidents.
• Managing cyber security risk.
• Preparing for the inevitable cyber incident.

Take home points:

• Learn how cyber risk continues to be on the increase, the need for schools to accept this and how to continue operating successfully in this environment.
• Take away tips to help develop user awareness and organisational cyber security culture in your school.
• Learn how desktop exercises or ‘war gaming’ can help with preparedness for the inevitable incident.

This session is for:  School leaders, SBMs and IT support staff

Speaker name/title: Gary Henderson, ANME ambassador and director of IT, Millfield 

About the speaker: Gary is an ANME Ambassador with over 20 years’ experience in education. Gary initially trained as a secondary school teacher in the UK before periods working in further and higher education, international schools in the Middle East and more recently in his current role as director of IT in a large UK independent school.

Gary is passionate about the potential of technology in teaching and learning, and has led various technology projects as a teacher, middle leader, senior leader and educational consultant. This has also led him to present at several conferences both in the UK and in the Middle East.

Leading the IT services team at Millfield in Somerset, his focus is on providing technology services which enable student learning, while cyber security, data privacy, online safety and ethics in relation to technology use are all subjects Gary is keenly interested in and issues he believes need to be more openly discussed with students in schools.