Meadow High School 
Cyber Security Statement

Meadow High School uses LGFL as their broadband provider.

LGFL (London Grid for Learning Trust) is a charity whose mission is the advancement of Education.

LGfL has 12 layers of protection for cyber security. 

Being part of the LGFL WAN protection begins before the internet reaches the school.

1. Pre-cleaned internet feed with added DDoS protection from Janet (https://www.jisc.ac.uk/janet)  
    
2. Security operations centre for ongoing monitoring and instant alerts
    
3. Industry grade core firewalls protect the WAN
    
4. Local LGFL provided firewall in the school
    
5. Sophos antivirus and ransomware protection for: a. Workstations b. Servers c. personal use
    
6. Malwarebytes scanning and remediation tool
    
7. Meraki mobile device management
    
8. Email protection: a. Egress encrypted messaging b. Mailprotect spam filter (MHS use own email domain)
    
9. Web filtering a. Webscreen - for use in schools b. Homeprotect - school-equivalent safe filter for home use
    
10. CPD: a. Sophos phish threat b. NCSC cybersecurity training
     
11. Research and awareness: a. NCSC security audit b. Newsletters and twitter
     
12. Policies and governance for schools, including the ‘elevate’ cybersecurity toolkit.

 

MHS security school report May 2023:

 

Resilience/Business Continuity:

MHS have twice daily onsite backups using a RAID array on the file server (shadow copy/previous versions etc) and a separately located NAS device with encrypted cloud backup copies.

Offsite are industry standard N-able (was solarwinds) encrypted cloud backups via our IT support partner.

All are tested by monitoring of backup logs and any error logs are immediately rectified.