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Meeting Digital and Technology Standards in Schools and Colleges – The Next Batch

In March 2023 the DfE added three more standards to their Meeting Digital and Technology Standards series. Here we look at the first of these, filtering and monitoring.

By drew.keavey, 3 years29/08/2023 ago
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Assignments

Boots UK – Corporate Procurement Support

During a three-month spell working within the Boots corporate procurement team, we undertook several procurement activities alongside some project work subject to confidentiality constraints. Of the procurement work, the highlights were: Renewal of the ITSM tooling for the Boots IT teams; the contract was over a 5-year period and was Read more

By drew.keavey, 3 years ago
Assignments

DN Colleges Group

I am delighted to announce an initial 3 -month engagement as Interim Director of IT and Infrastructure at DN Colleges Group. This is a wide-ranging role covering all aspects of IT leadership.

By drew.keavey, 3 years04/08/2023 ago
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Snippets

Excel – Create an Auto Incrementing Reference Number

A simple way to add reference numbers that automatically increment as new entries are added into a table.

By drew.keavey, 3 years20/02/2023 ago
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Handy Hints

Calculating Working Days in Excel

A quick summary of how to use Excel functions to work out the number of working days available across a period of time.

By drew.keavey, 3 years05/01/2023 ago
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Cyber security standards for schools and colleges in detail – Part Five

In the fifth and final deep dive into the cyber security standards we cover cyber attack reporting, data protection impact assessments and staff training.

By drew.keavey, 3 years03/11/2022 ago
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Cyber security standards for schools and colleges in detail – Part Four

For part four of our detailed look at Cyber security standards for schools and colleges, we will take a look at the standards relating to backup and business continuity/disaster recovery planning.

By drew.keavey, 3 years01/11/2022 ago
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Cyber Security Standards for Schools and Colleges in Detail – Part Three

Part Three of the look at the Cyber Security Standards for schools and colleges – this time we look at anti-malware, checking application security and licensing.

By drew.keavey, 3 years20/10/2022 ago
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Cyber Security Standards for Schools and Colleges in Detail – Part Two

In part two of our look at the Cyber security standards for schools and colleges we will dig into the standards relating to user accounts and their security.

By drew.keavey, 3 years14/10/2022 ago
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Cyber Security Standards for Schools and Colleges in Detail – Part One

We take a deeper look at the first two standards in the DfE Cyber security standards for schools and colleges; firewalls and secure network devices.

By drew.keavey, 3 years12/10/2022 ago

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