A support decision that does not feel like a cyber decision A learner cannot access their account just before a session starts. The tutor is already trying to settle the room, manage late arrivals, respond to a support issue that surfaced earlier in the morning, and avoid losing more teaching time than they already have. […]
A finance assistant receives an email from a long-standing supplier. The tone is familiar. The branding is correct. The request is straightforward: bank details have changed, and future payments should be redirected to a new account. Nothing about the email feels dramatic. It does not look like a cyberattack. It looks like admin. In that […]
When schools talk about cyber risk, the conversation still tends to focus outward. External attackers. Phishing emails. Criminal groups attempting to gain access from outside the organisation. That framing is familiar, and it remains relevant. But it no longer tells the full story of how cyber incidents are actually unfolding in education settings. Increasingly, the […]
For a long time, cybersecurity awareness was treated as a reasonable endpoint. If staff had completed the training, clicked through the module, and acknowledged the policy, organisations could confidently say they had done what was required. Awareness was something you could evidence, report on, and move on from. That approach made sense in a world […]
If you sit in enough meetings about risk, compliance, or “cyber”, you start to notice something interesting. The language changes, but the assumptions rarely do. Cybersecurity and information security are used as if they’re interchangeable. Different words, same meaning. Same budget line. Same responsibility. Most of the time, no one challenges that assumption. It feels […]
It used to be easy to spot false information. Grainy photos, strange links, and outlandish headlines gave the game away. But today, technology has changed the rules. Artificial intelligence can create realistic images, convincing videos, and entire news stories that never happened. What we see online no longer guarantees what’s true — and that shift […]
