Why are Frederick County Public Schools (Maryland) adopting new data security rules? The School experiences a data breach.
5 Elements from the new data breach policy:
- Requires frequent and thorough teacher and staff training for treatment of sensitive information
- incident response planning
- acceptable use of technology
- information technology security awareness
- sets guidelines to mitigate and communicate risks for FCPS student and staff information systems
Also requires a 3rd party contractor to test the schools’ data security regularly.
Frederick News Post | New FCPS data security policy takes measures to protect student information