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Understanding How Service Provider Inventories Can Help Prevent Supply Chain Attacks
Where are Your Meat Trimmings Coming From? Hotdogs are the quintessential summertime-pool-party-grill-out food. At every BBQ in America, especially in July, you can find these cylindrical meat sticks of joy on the grill or lukewarm in a tub on the table, 4 hours after being cooked. In fact every year 20 billion hot dogs are…
Read MoreForward Edge is IETC Bound!
Are you as pumped as we are for IETC 2022?! The team at Forward Edge is ecstatic for another opportunity to get one-on-one networking and learning experiences at the BOS Center in Springfield. On November 2nd-4th, PreK-12 Teachers, Administrators, and Tech Coordinators are coming together to enjoy three days of collaborative learning. Our team is gearing…
Read MoreIntroducing the ALL NEW Edge•U FREE Educator Account for Educators and Leaders!
Edge•U Badges + ISTE Certified Educator Community = ONE AMAZING PARTNERSHIP
At Edge•U, we are all about keeping educator engagement alive with challenges and incentives, because WHO doesn’t love a little healthy competition? Edge•U Badges is excited to announce the inaugural ISTE Certified Educator Edge•U Badges Challenge collaboration! We are bringing access to our badge program directly to 125 global educators and leaders of the ISTE…
Read MoreHow to Create and Implement a Data Recovery Plan
A Hard Lesson in Backups I was 13 years old when I learned why it was important to have good backups. It was 2008 and the new World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, had just launched and the rest of my friends were already waiting in the game for me. I was…
Read MoreThe Age of the Browser: How to Secure the Browser and Minimize Your District’s Attack Surface
From Computer Labs to Chromebooks When I was in elementary school, we had one computer lab in our library that was filled with old Macintosh computers that were 1 and a half feet by 1 and a half feet cubes that weighed 50 pounds each. Each one had Microsoft Word installed on the machine with…
Read MoreNew Look, New Feel, New Features…SAME Spark of Joy!
Change can be fun, interesting, and productive. It often comes with diligent efforts to bring something new into focus that is beneficial to everyone. We have been hard at work all year implementing some big changes coming to Edge•U this summer. We’re so excited to share it as there are some amazing new features!
Read MoreISTELive 22 or BUST!
Full of hype and excitement, our team is heading to the ISTELive 22 conference on June 26th, long-considered THE premiere edtech event of the year by leaders in education around the globe. We will be strapping on running shoes as we set out to explore the 1.1 million square feet of glorious space in the…
Read MoreHow Hardware and Software Inventories Help Secure Our Networks
Cybersecurity is like a Gas Station? Every morning I wake up and get ready for the day in the same usual way, walk and feed the dogs, take a shower and get dressed, and then head to work. By the time I get to work though I have to be ready to hit the ground…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Principle of Least Privilege
The Jurassic Park Lesson The Principle of Least Privilege is the principle that users and programs should only have the necessary privileges to complete their tasks. In the case of Jurassic Park, this whole situation could have been avoided if they had applied the principle of least privilege throughout the systems in the park. Sure, Dennis…
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