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Solutions and Strategies for K-12

11/10/2009

Security Spotlight

Districts Get To Work Making Themselves Safer with REMS Grants
A small Arizona district will be bringing in expertise to help put the finishing touches on school safety plans and training. An Oregon district will be hiring a part-time person to coordinate emergency planning. A sizable Florida district will be adding GPS and biometric identification systems to its rural school buses and compensating school leaders to complete emergency management training and update their schools' plans.More

School Security News & Issues

Social Networking Exploding in Enterprise Networks
Social networking and digitally based collaboration are consuming networks. For example, Twitter usage has grown more than 250 percent and Facebook usage by 192 percent in the last six months, according to a research project by firewall vendor Palo Alto Networks.More
Lightspeed Issues White Paper on IT's Role in Dealing with School Sexual Misconduct
Research has indicated that as many as 10 percent of K-12 students are the targets of sexual misconduct by school employees at some point during their years of attendance, often leading to lifelong social, psychological, and/or occupational issues.More
Ontario and Texas Districts Adopt Wireless Network Access Control
Two districts--one in Ontario and the other in Texas--have adopted the same model of wireless network access security appliance from Avenda Systems. Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board in the province of Ontario and Mount Pleasant Independent School District in Texas have both deployed the eTIPS model 5010. The appliance manages policies across access methods, operating systems, managed and unmanaged endpoints, and identity stores.
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Genetec Updates IP Video Application
Genetec has updated its IP video surveillance application. Omnicast 4.5 adds support for ObjectVideo analytics technology as well as video devices with built-in analytics. More
PA School District Adopts Teo for 911 Location Features
The Bedford Area School District in Pennsylvania has adopted Teo's E911 emergency management software to provide real-time information and communication for 911 events.More
SecureaGlobe Bundles Security Services for Schools
SecureaGlobe has launched Virtual Security Director (VSD), a suite of services for schools and districts to provide surveillance, as well as compliance and ethics management. More
SmoothWall Upgrade Filters Flash
SmoothWall has added filtering of Flash-based games into a Guardian Web Filter feature pack that it's making available to users of its Web filter product.More
St. Bernard Updates Web Security Appliance, Offers Sneak Peek at Mobile Security
St. Bernard Software has released a new version of its Web security appliance and provided a preview of a new mobile security service.More

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