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Cybersecurity for state agencies, schools and colleges

Find and fix your biggest digital risks, meet your insurer’s requirements, and train every employee and staff member to spot an attack, with a team that works alongside your IT staff.

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SLED solution briefPDF, 2 pages

Built for

  • K-12 school districts
  • Colleges and universities
  • State agencies
  • Education service agencies
A security awareness quiz asks which email is a phishing attempt and marks the right answer correct.

Schools are a favorite target.

Small IT teams, open networks and a lot of personal data make education an easy mark. The cost is measured in lost learning.

  1. Jul 2023 to Dec 2024

    82% of K-12 schools experienced a cyber incident.

    Source: K-12 Dive, on the Center for Internet Security report, Mar 2025

  2. First half of 2025

    Ransomware attacks on schools, colleges and universities rose 23% year over year.

    Source: K-12 Dive, on the Center for Internet Security report, Mar 2025

  3. Federal review

    After a cyberattack, schools reported 3 days to 3 weeks of lost learning and 2 to 9 months to recover.

    Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office, Oct 2022

Digital risk assessment.

Our experts work with your IT and operations teams to find the controls that are below standard and fix them in the right order, aligned with NIST.

Mitigate

Assess and manage risk

  • Your security perimeter and infrastructure
  • Regulatory and contractual obligations
  • Legacy and cloud technology stacks

Protect

Close the gaps

  • Adaptive security assessments
  • Policies pre-vetted against insurer requirements
  • Industry-specific compliance modules

Enforce

Keep it that way

  • Incident response planning
  • Consistent controls across old and new systems
  • A maturity dashboard with periodic reporting

Security awareness training that changes behavior.

Short, frequent lessons and realistic phishing tests, tailored to your policies, your regulators and your cyber insurance requirements.

  • Phishing simulations modeled on real attacks, including custom spoofs of your own systems
  • Dark web checks that show who needs to change a compromised password
  • Short, adaptive modules plus compliance modules and your own policies
  • Automated user management and curriculum updates
  • Cyber risk ratings and reports your leadership can act on
Phishing simulationTraining
From: IT Help Desk <support@district-helpdesk.co>1Subject: Action required: your password expires today2

Hi,

Your account will be locked at 5:00 PM unless you confirm your password now.3

Keep my password4
  1. 1Look-alike sender domain
  2. 2Urgency in the subject line
  3. 3A deadline and a threat
  4. 4A button that hides the real link
Illustrative example

Built for how education works.

School districts

K-12

  • CIPA, COPPA and FERPA considerations built into policies and training
  • Web filtering and activity monitoring for student safety through MSSP++
  • Training for teachers, staff and administrators
About MSSP++

Colleges and universities

Higher education

  • Open networks segmented and monitored
  • Research and student data protected
  • Training across faculty, staff and student workers

State agencies

Government

  • Controls aligned with NIST
  • Cyber insurance readiness
  • Incident response plans and tabletop exercises

Three phases.
In the right order.

  1. Crawl Review

    Know where you stand.

    A digital risk assessment with a prioritized plan and a maturity baseline.

  2. Walk Train

    Fix the gaps and train everyone.

    Close the highest risks first and start phishing simulations and training.

  3. Run Protect

    Hand off the watch.

    Add MSSP++ and 24/7 SOC monitoring when you are ready.

Questions schools and agencies ask.

Yes. Policies and controls are pre-vetted against insurer requirements, which is often what qualifies you for broader coverage at a lower premium.

Yes. Lessons are short and frequent, and the phishing tests look like the email your staff actually receive.

No. We work with your IT and operations teams and only take on what you want us to.

Not quite. SLED, for state, local and education, is the term the industry uses for state agencies, local government, schools and colleges. Federal agencies such as CISA and EPA say SLTT, for state, local, tribal and territorial governments, which leaves schools out. We serve both: New Jersey state agencies, municipalities, counties, school districts and colleges.

Find your biggest risks before an attacker does.

Tell us about your organization. One of our engineers will walk you through how an assessment works and where we would start.

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