School Security :: May 8, 2007
Security Spotlight
Long Odds, Short Fuses
Developing sound security policy in the midst of hysteria
By David Nagel
Following last month's unprecedented massacre at Virginia Tech, security has, once again, temporarily moved to the top of the policy agenda in schools. As educators, parents, school staff, and concerned human beings in general, we all want to provide the absolute safest environment possible for the children in our care. Incidents of violence on college and school campuses remind us of our vulnerabilities. Couple this feeling of vulnerability with major media coverage, and we wind up with pressures both internal and external pushing administrators into immediate action....
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School Security News
THE Journal 2007 Innovator Awards Open
You're doing great things with technology at school--we want to know about them. We seek exemplary K-12 schools and districts, their visionary technology project leadership, and their innovative vendor partners who have deployed extraordinary technology solutions to school challenges. Could you be one of this year's recognized technology leaders? T.H.E. Journal's 2007 Innovators will be featured in the December issue.
Nominate your institution, technology project leader(s), and vendor partner(s) by June 30!...
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Orange Country DoE To Deploy SEMS
The Orange County Department of Education in California will implement a new Safety and Emergency Management System (SEMS) from Maxxess Systems, a provider of network-based security systems. The contract calls for Maxxess to install the system at several schools over the next few months....
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Virginia District To Deploy Novell Security Systems
Fairfax County Public Schools recently developed a five-year plan to implement Novell security and identity technology for their districts websites. The technology is designed to help districts manage security and identity issues for its constantly changing student population and meet government regulations....
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Miami-Dade Renews Desktop Security
Miami-Dade Public Schools, the fourth-largest school district in the nation, is implementing new security measures to protect its 90,000 desktops and 50,000 e-mail accounts from spam, viruses, worms, spyware, and unwanted applications....
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Chicago Area Districts Aim to Enhance Parent Communications
The greater Chicago area's Oak Lawn-Hometown School District, New Lenox School District, and Oswego Community Unit School District will use Minneapolis, MN-based Honeywell's Instant Alert for Schools to improve communications with parents....
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Districts Adopt NetSupport to Manage Student Computers
NetSupport Inc. has reported that several districts and individual schools around the country have adopted NetSupport products to provide control over students' computer systems....
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