K12 Tech Talk

Episode 123 - Are Passkeys Necessary?

In this episode, we talk about the MoveIT vulnerability and the recent Fortinet SSL VPN vulnerability. The majority of the episode is spent covering the various versions of MFA, including a deep dive into what Passkeys are. If you are a Google Workspace school district, you should take note and enable the option for Passkey MFA. We talk about disabling IMAP for Gmail as a step to enhance email security.  Josh talks about his fiber project that is now underway.
BleepingComputer article about Fortinet SSLVPN issue
CISA press release about MoveIT
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Managed Methods - free Google Workspace and/or Microsoft 365 security audit
Fortinet - Email fortinetpodcast@fortinet.com
Extreme Networks - Email dmayer@extremenetworks.com
VIZOR
SomethingCool.com
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Episode 122 - Can You Pass a Cybersecurity Assessment?

Josh is on vacation, so it's the Chris and Mark Show! We discuss Microsoft OneDrive being down, the upcoming MidwestTechTalk conference, and most of the episode is spent taking the K12 Six cybersecurity self-assessment.
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Managed Methods - free Google Workspace and/or Microsoft 365 security audit
Fortinet - Email fortinetpodcast@fortinet.com
Extreme Networks - Email dmayer@extremenetworks.com
NTP
SomethingCool.com
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Episode 121 - Student MFA?!?!

In this episode, we talk about the possibility of requiring Student MFA (thanks to a k12sysadmin post). We also talk about Chris prepping for his network admin to retire and the "brain dump" process they are undertaking. Finally, we talk about the recently announced change to "3rd Party Apps" authentication with Google SSO. This change takes effect on October 23rd, 2023 and will cause issues. The time to act is now... DON'T WAIT!
An article we wrote on K12TechPro with 3rd Party Apps instructions is here.
Google article is here... https://support.google.com/a/answer/13289151
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Managed Methods - free Google Workspace and/or Microsoft 365 security audit
Fortinet - Email fortinetpodcast@fortinet.com
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NTP
SomethingCool.com
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Episode 120 - Chris Sleeps This One Out

Chis is off napping somewhere so it is the Mark and Josh show.
They recap the recently released "CoSN 2023 State of EdTech Leadership Survey" that was released this week.  They go over 11 key findings and trends that came out of the study.  Some might surprised you.
Mark talks about figured out how to block international logins to Google Workspace accounts. Hint - he made a full writeup on the K12 Tech Pro Community
The guys also talk about the newly refreshed #StopRansomware Report from CISA/FBI.
Finally there is a quick interview with Jeff and Dean from VIZOR about what Vizor can do for your district
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VIZOR
Managed Methods - free Google Workspace and/or Microsoft 365 security audit
Fortinet - Email fortinetpodcast@fortinet.com
Extreme Networks - Email dmayer@extremenetworks.com
NTP
SomethingCool.com
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Episode 119 - An Interview with Lucas from PIRG

We quickly talk about the SchoolDude breach and Keepass's newly announced CVE. The majority of the episode is an interview with Lucas from PIRG. Lucas is the author of the study we referenced a few weeks ago in the episode "Chromebooks are Evil?." The study looks at "Chromebook Churn" and e-waste created by device usage. After that episode a few weeks ago, Lucas reached out to us to clarify a few points of the study.  So, we invited him on to make those clarifications to our listeners. We had an interesting discussion with Lucas, and came away agreeing on more points than we disagree.
Article that Mark refers to - Why do we replace our laptops every few years?
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Managed Methods - free Google Workspace and/or Microsoft 365 security audit
Fortinet - Email fortinetpodcast@fortinet.com
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NTP
SomethingCool.com
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Episode 118 - The Gang Finally Meets

🎶Together and it feels so good...🎵
We are all together for the first time at the New Hampshire CTO Clinic! First and foremost, we thank Barbara and the committee for inviting us and making the trip possible - We had a blast!
We got to hang out with the fine folks of the "Live Free or Die" State and talk all things K12 technology. The key topics were cybersecurity and data privacy. We had a chance to interview Pam and Josh, two of the driving forces behind New Hampshire's outstanding Student Data Privacy standards. We also interview Neal who everyone says "Neal is the State's cyber guy!"
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Episode 117 - Lakota Schools Cyber Academy

This is a bit of a special episode. We are in New Hampshire for the NHCTO Clinic, so we prerecorded a few interviews. The first interview you will hear is with Andrew and George from Lakota Local School District. George is a student in high school and is completing their Cyber Academy program and gaining Industry Recognized Certificates (Including Security+ and CEH pro). This has opened doors for George and he is currently working as a cybersecurity professional for a company in his area while going to school. It's a really cool program and has given us a few ideas.
The second interview you will hear is a chat with a number of representatives from Absolute. They go into detail about what their product can offer schools.
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Absolute - Email oschmidt@absolute.com
Absolute - Ensuring your Students’ Safety
Fortinet - Email fortinetpodcast@fortinet.com
SomethingCool.com - X360 Cloud Solution for backing up Google Workspace
Extreme Networks - Email dmayer@extremenetworks.com
NTP
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Episode 116 - Chromebooks Are Evil?

Mark is worked up this week, but first... Chris asks us how to keep printers from getting to bad websites, we talk about the big PaperCut vulnerability announced last week, we compare Chris' personality and mannerisms to Ted Lasso, we talk about the new pending Federal Legislation to enhance K12 Cyber Security, and Mark talks about Domain Doppelgänger from KnowBe4.
The majority of this episode is spent talking about a "study" that was published last week about how Chromebooks are evil. The study talks about how schools have spent money buying millions of Chromebooks but those Chromebooks can't be repaired, have a "death date," and creating huge amounts of e-waste. This article got Mark worked up and he walks us through debunking each and every claim in this article and, in the process, we have a few good laughs.
K12 Cyber Legislation - https://thejournal.com/articles/2023/04/20/federal-legislation-would-create-k12-cybersecurity-improvement-program.aspx
PIRG "study" - https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/chromebook-churn-report-highlights-problems-of-short-lived-laptops-in-schools/
Papercut CVE - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/exploit-released-for-papercut-flaw-abused-to-hijack-servers-patch-now/
Domain Doppelgänger - https://www.knowbe4.com/domain-doppelganger
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Absolute - Email oschmidt@absolute.com
Strengthening Security and Compliance Posture through Cyber Resilience in Education
Fortinet - Email fortinetpodcast@fortinet.com
SomethingCool.com - X360 Cloud Solution for backing up Google Workspace
Extreme Networks - Email dmayer@extremenetworks.com
NTP
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