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  School security breaches on the rise
  Increases in physical and network security breaches among K-12 school districts are hampering schools' efforts to improve their overall security, according to the third annual School Safety Index, a survey of more than 400 K-12 district IT and security directors conducted by CDW-G.[ Read More ]

   

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  Laptop computer thefts surge on UW-Madison campus
  University of Wisconsin-Madison police said they've seen a significant spike in laptop computer thefts on campus in recent months, prompting new calls for vigilance, WISC-TV reports. Campus police said laptop thefts are up more than 500 percent this year as compared to 2008.[ Read More ]

   

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  Tracking equipment leads to recovery of stolen school computer
  Thieves had better think twice before stealing a computer from the Fort Worth, Texas, school district, reports the Dallas Morning News: Fort Worth school officials say police have recovered a laptop computer taken from one of their schools because a tracking device had been installed on it. [ Read More ]

   

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  Lenovo service disables laptops with text message
  If a Lenovo laptop is lost or stolen, now there is a new way to remotely shut it down, reports PC World: Just text it. [ Read More ]

   

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  Laptop theft puts 40,000 school employees at risk
  Two laptop computers containing the names and Social Security numbers of about 40,000 current and former employees of the Chicago Public Schools were stolen from district headquarters. [ Read More ]

   

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  $100 laptop reinvents computer security
  The One Laptop Per Child project, a nonprofit initiative begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aims to improve education by giving children bright-colored, hand-cranked, wireless-enabled portable computers. The machines have garnered the most attention, and some skepticism, for the design elements helping to keep their price low. But programmers also have been taking advantage of the start-from-scratch nature of the project to design security protocols that they hope will greatly surpass those found in mass-market computers today. [ Read More ]

   

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  With PC tracking software, stolen laptop recovered almost instantly
  A teacher from DeSoto High School in Texas, knowing she would be out of the classroom on school business for the day on Friday, April 17, hid her laptop in her desk drawer. When she returned to school later that afternoon, she went to retrieve the laptop—only to discover that it was missing. But thanks to a PC tracking program from Absolute Software of Vancouver, British Columbia, school officials were able to recover the machine just 20 minutes after it was reported stolen. [ Read More ]

   

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  Educators struggle with AUP enforcement
  School districts create acceptable-use policies (AUPs) to define what is--and is not--acceptable behavior when using their computer resources. But at a time when computers and internet access are seen as increasingly important tools for instruction, many school leaders are struggling with how best to enforce these policies in the event that students transgress them. [ Read More ]

   

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  Technology Management: New tools make AUP enforcement easier than ever
  In a perfect world, public school acceptable-use policies (AUPs) wouldn't be necessary. However, school network administrators know that access to the internet and other network resources can be too tempting for students at times. [ Read More ]

   

Other Resources

Case Study: New Tool Helps Kent School District Manage Notebooks for the Classroom
http://www.eschoolnews.com/media/Kent-ISD-Case-Study.pdf

Whitepaper: Visibility Equals Money Saved
http://www.eschoolnews.com/media/EducationWhitepaper.pdf

Free Webinar: Turn laptop vulnerability into accountability and control
http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/webinars/laptop-management/

Case Study: Henrico County Public School District secures its laptop initiative
http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/keeping-online-learning-secure/Henrico1on1.pdf