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EDIT 2024 - 30th October - Programme and Information
With just a short time left before our EDIT 2024 Conference at Hendon, very kindly sponsoed by Smoothwall, all that is left is to let you know the timings for the day and a full run down of the program and exhibition. It promises to be an excellent day of informative talks, networking and the after conf social. If you haven't got your free ticket yet, you can grab them from eventbrite here. Speakers: Tom Newton, VP of Unification at Smoothwall will explore the impact of gene
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EduGeek EDIT 2024 - 30th October - Tickets Now Available
We’ve made it to London at long last, so you Geeks Of The South have no excuse now! Join us on the 30th of October at the RAF Museum, Hendon for our FREE EDIT Conference kindly sponsored this year by Smoothwall. Get your free tickets from Eventbrite Tickets. There will be another article closer to the date with all the timings of speakers etc. on there. All talks will be streamed live. Once more, we have a raft of top speakers for the conf with the following already booked and conf
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Sophos and Specops webinars are now live!
The recordings of our last two webinars are now live on our YouTube channel and you can find them here: Sophos - 'The Threat Landscape in Education 2024 + AV Best Practice' Specops – 'Active Directory Password Security, Identity Management and MFA' Our YouTube channel also contain recording of all the other webinars we have run as well as recording of our EDIT conference presentations and you can find a few of our more recent talks below: Th
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May 2024 EduGeek Webinars with Sophos & SpecOps
EduGeek Webinars are back! We are happy to announce that we have invited Sophos (courtesy of Wave9) and Specops to join us in providing a couple of talks that should be of great interest to you all. Dates for your diaries! Click here to watch the recordings Tuesday 21st May: Sophos Roger Neal will be delivering his session 'The Threat Landscape in Education 2024 + AV Best Practice' ______________________________________ Thursday 23rd May: Specops
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Webinar | The Next Generation Network and the Framework Approach (2nd May)
Net-Ctrl will be joined by RUCKUS Networks and Everything ICT as we explore the future demands of the next-generation network, and possible procurement routes via Education aligned framework providers. Whilst this is Ruckus-led - this should be a really interesting session for everyone as we discuss broader considerations, regardless of your vendor of choice. Richard Leadbetter, UK Education Lead, and Deep Johal, Systems Engineer at RUCKUS Networks, will be looking at:
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Webinar - How to curb vaping with Verkada
On Tuesday 19th March at 2PM we at Net-Ctrl are co-hosting a webinar with Verkada as we discuss how you can curb vaping by utilising Verkada's hybrid cloud sensors. The vaping challenge is schools shows no signs of slowing. It is reported that 1 in 5 teenagers have tried vaping - an increase of ⅓ over a year ago. With proposed tax increases and vape bans being introduced this is hopefully going to help slow the accessibility of such items, but the likelihood is companies producing vapes will
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Come and visit us (stand NH22) & our sponsors at BETT 2024
Come visit EduGeek on Stand NH22 for the chance to win an Arcade Machine! BETT is finally back to it’s January slot once more and with little time to go we are all looking forward to spending all of our daylight hours within the glorious confines of the BETT show at London’s ExCel for the week of the 22nd – 26th January (we have to setup y’know!). As the world’s largest EdTech expo, BETT 2024 will be packed with the latest and greatest in the world of educational technology from the in
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EduGeek Christmas 2023 Message
We made it to the end of yet another year! Right now, across the world, desktops are being powered down, projectors turned off and servers given a stern eye in case they decide to do their own thing over the Christmas holidays once you’ve turned off the lights (we’ve all been there!). This year has seen an almost return to whatever passes for pre-covid normal. We had the great pleasure of seeing you all in person, not only at BETT in March but also at our first EDIT Conf since 2019 in Leeds i
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Active Directory Password Security: A Guide for the UK Education Sector
In this article, we discuss how to get a handle on the problem that compromised passwords present to educational establishments, how to easily identify them in Active Directory (AD) alongside additional password vulnerabilities, and how to future-proof your password security with continuous compromised password scanning. The compromised password problem The education sector is becoming an increasingly attractive target for cyberattacks. This year the UK government reporte
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EDIT 2023 - Talks are now on YouTube
And they’re live! Please find below the links to the talks from our recent EDIT 2023 Conference. Please note the NCSC talk will be published soon as we still need to sanitise the video due to sensitive graphics. You can view the entire playlist on our YouTube channel or below in this article. Smoothwall – ‘Web Filtering in Education, It’s Not Just Proxies Anymore’: Ruckus – WiFi 7: Freedom Fibre – ‘AI in Education – Risks’: Schools Broadband – ‘The Ri
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EDIT 2023 - Program and Exhibitor Information
With just a short time left before our EDIT 2023 Conference at Leeds, all that is left is to let you know the timings for the day and a full run down of the program and exhibition. EDIT 2023 promises to be an excellent day of informative talks, networking and expo. The talks will be streamed live and put on our YouTube channel once we get back into the office - https://www.youtube.com/@edugeek This years talks: Smoothwall – Tom Newton will be opening EDIT 2023 with the keynote talk ‘Web
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Webinar: Smarter Schools, Safer Students: Detect Vaping with Verkada's All-in-One Sensors
Following the announcement of the extended Verkada Vape Sensor pricing promotion Net-Ctrl will be running another vape focussed webinar with Verkada on the 27th September at 2PM. Net-Ctrl will look at how Verkada’s hybrid-cloud CCTV and air quality sensors help to detect, prevent and manage vaping in schools. Join this live webinar as which will highlight TWO new alert features, that you may have not previously been aware of, which are now available to ALL current and prospective customers
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