Cyber Security Standards for Schools and Colleges 2024

Standard

How GDPRiS helps you meet the standards related to digital technology

  • Conduct a cyber risk assessment annually and review every term
  • Create and implement a cyber awareness plan for students and staff
  • Control and secure user accounts and access privileges
  • License digital technology and keep it up to date

Data Maps

  • Data Maps for more than 3,800 education suppliers to get you started
  • RoPA cards provide a comprehensive overview of product data map and supporting information

Report cyber attacks

Suppliers, RoPA and DPIAs

  • RoPA cards provide a comprehensive overview of product data map and supporting information
  • Auto-generated, part filled DPIAs to assist with due diligence and risk assessment
  • Assign owners and users to systems, generate reports by user (great for when staff leave)
  • Manage your contracts directly from your RoPA
  • Add your own systems and data mapping, even for paper based processing
  • MAT can centrally manage RoPA, feed down system subscriptions, carry out risk assessments

Incident Management

  • Log, track and manage cyber incidents and any associated data breach
  • Run incident drills to test your cyber incident response plan
  • Exclude drills from your reporting to maintain an accurate record of real incidents
  • Spot trends and identify common themes
  • Know where you need to make improvements
  • Identify training needs
  • Setup response teams for breaches and cyber security incidents so you know who needs to receive notifications and updates
  • Quickly and easily report incidents to the relevant agencies
  • Generate comprehensive report of the incident to provide to 3rd parties
  • Manage complaints related to incident handling all in one place

Documents

Securely store and share:

  • Policies related to data protection and cyber security
  • Notify all staff, even in a multi-school organisation, when a new policy or updated policy is available
  • Request read acknowledgements - evidence your staff have read the policy/update
  • Store your business continuity plan, cyber incident response plan etc providing easy access in the cloud

Fully cloud-based, simple, secure administration

  • Integrate with your MIS to maintain accurate staff accounts

Training

  • Cyber security awareness training
  • CPD certified role-based data protection training
  • Supports single sign-on with Google and Microsoft
  • Evidence training staff have received
  • Supports Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)