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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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EduGeek EDIT 2023 Registration and Instructions
Geeks of the North gather! Recordings coming soon! We’re back in the north of England once more for EDIT 2023 after a many years break in the southern hinterlands for venues and lockdowns! Join us on the 24th of October at the Royal Armouries in Leeds for our FREE EDIT Conference kindly sponsored by Smoothwall. We have a raft of top speakers for this conf with the following already booked and confirmed, with more to come (we’ll keep you posted as and when they confirm): Smoothwall
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EduGeek EDIT Conference - Coming to Leeds this October!
Where: The Royal Armouries in Leeds [When: 24th of October Just to leave you all with a heads-up before the summer holidays begin. This will be held at The Royal Armouries in Leeds on the 24th of October and has been very kindly sponsored by Smoothwall. This will be a day of excellent talks, networking and companies exhibiting in a truly unique environment. There will be more information to follow after the summer holidays.
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EduGeek Webinar Week - July 2023 Videos
Thanks to all of you who joined us for the series of webinars we ran last week and we hope you found them useful and informative. We have now finished uploading these and you can find them below. We have also fixed the video on the British Esports presentation where the audio was missing, so you can now view it as intended. Once more we’d like to give our thanks to Chris Mellowship from BenQ, Kalam Neale from British Esports and Stuart Brookes from PaperCut for taking the time out in their bus
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EduGeek Webinars - BenQ, British Esports & PaperCut - July 2023
We’re back with some more webinars to send you off into the summer holidays with some great speakers covering subjects we know many of you will find very interesting. We’d like to thank PaperCut, BenQ and British Esports for sparing the time to talk to you all Dates: 4th July - Chris Mellowship, from BenQ UK, will be here taking us though power saving techniques in AV products we commonly use 5th July – Kalam Neale, head of education at British Esports, talking about the Esports curr
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Smoothwall Newcastle Customer Conference - 6th July
Smoothwall invites you to mark your calendars for our Newcastle Customer Conference - July 6th 2023 Back by popular demand, our one-day events are specifically tailored for Smoothwall customers, providing a fantastic opportunity for ITs and Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) to gather and engage in insightful discussions about student digital safety and wellbeing. Best of all, it’s completely FREE of charge! Discover the Latest Product Developments
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Webinar: Net-Ctrl & Verkada-How to Detect and Prevent Vaping 27th April
At BETT Net-Ctrl had a lot of interest and questions about the Verkada vape sensors/air quality sensors so we wanted to put on a session that focuses on this area of the Verkada portfolio. You can join Net-Ctrl and Verkada on the 27th April at 14.00. We will be joined by some of the Verkada team as we look at how you can address the ongoing student vaping epidemic with Verkada’s integrated system of cameras and air quality sensors. In particular, we will addre
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BETT 2023 Raffle Results
Thanks to all of you that came over to see us on our stand at BETT for a chat, to rest your legs, eat chocolates and indulge in lunchtime pizza! It was great to see so many of you again, both old faces and new. Hopefully we shall see more of you at BETT in January 2024 - only 9 months to go! (rail strikes and other factors not withstanding!). If you were one of those who gave us your details to be entered into the raffle then today could be your lucky day! Please note that we shal
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ESP Education Salary Survey 2023
Our last IT for Education Salary Survey, coincided with the very start of the Pandemic. Since then we’ve experienced: Big shift across IT to hybrid or remote working. An accelerated move to cloud based tech both in schools and industry. “The Great Resignation”. A big over demand for IT staff. An increasing upwards pressure on salaries and more flexible conditions. Help us to help you understand where you now stand against your peers. See where salaries of IT staff have
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