Through our partnership with Secure Schools, we are pleased to re-share their ‘cyber score’ service, a free-to-use, global framework for cybersecurity in education.
Cyber score is designed to help schools benchmark, improve, and better protect against common cybersecurity threats by answering simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ statements to calculate their cyber score, built around leading cybersecurity standards.
As the first dedicated cybersecurity scoring system tailored specifically for schools globally, cyber score provides:
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Progress benchmarking – Using set parameters, you can review your cybersecurity posture and see your score change as you take more actions to reduce risk.
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Guidance tailored to regional and national standards – Ensuring that you can align your efforts with the requirements of your local, regional and national standards and guidelines.
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Actionable insights – Highlight the most important steps you can take to reduce risk, in a self-paced and incremental manner.
Building on years of experience conducting audits with hundreds of educational institutions worldwide, Secure Schools have developed cyber score as a more effective, efficient, and engaging way to benchmark, improve, and protect you from cyber threats.
What is cyber score?
Cyber score gives you a structured, self-paced, modular journey to reduce cybersecurity risk.
With cyber score’s guided statements, expectations and achievements, you can take ownership of your cybersecurity, breaking the process into manageable steps, benchmarking against national averages, and specific guidance based on national requirements.
The statements you'll answer through cyber score are mapped to specific standards and guidelines. You can benchmark your school's cybersecurity posture against the DfE cyber security standards and the RPA.
Cyber score provides straightforward, actionable guidance that makes cybersecurity accessible for everyone.
To get started - all you have to do is sign-up to the Secure Schools platform for free - https://partner.secureschools.com/norfolk-ict-solutions