Practical guidance for school and business IT
What's actually happening in Australian school IT and cybersecurity — breaches, regulation, fraud, AI — and what to do about it. Written by the engineers, not the marketing department.
Payment redirection fraud: why school offices are prime targets — and the controls that stop it
Criminals impersonate your builder, your supplier or your principal — and only the bank details change. The free process controls and the technical safeguards every school office needs.
AI in the classroom: turning the national framework into a policy that actually works
The national framework and state guidance exist — what's missing in most schools is the last mile: a working policy, an approved-tools list and the technical controls that enforce both.
Your school's biggest cyber risk might be a vendor you trust
Attackers have learned that breaching one edtech platform beats breaching a thousand schools. The due-diligence questions, contract clauses and monitoring controls that limit the blast radius.
1:1 vs BYOD in 2026: the device program decision, without the ideology
The old cost argument for BYOD is weakening and safeguarding expectations keep rising. An honest comparison — and the hybrid model most schools land on once the numbers are on one page.
The school holiday IT checklist: what has to happen before day one of term
8:40am, day one: laptops won't sign in and the panel in Room 12 shows 'no input'. Almost none of it is bad luck. The week-by-week holiday checklist we run for every school fleet.
The under-16 social media ban: what it actually changes for schools
Platforms carry the legal duty, not schools — but communication channels, classroom video, filtering policies and wellbeing programs are all affected. A practical guide with a 20-minute checklist.
Online assessments: is your network ready for the one week it really matters?
A dropped access point during a writing test isn't an IT ticket — it's thirty interrupted assessments. Wi-Fi density, locked-down browsers, filtering exceptions and the failure plan.
Seven lessons every school should take from the Victorian education data breach
A single compromised school network exposed student records across an entire state system. What the January 2026 breach teaches every Australian school about segmentation, MFA, detection speed and incident response.
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