K-12 Education focuses on teaching the youth of our country, that is their business. Teachers and leaders in schools need to focus on student learning yet are experiencing the impact that unsecured technology and information can have. Saint Paul Public School district has made security and privacy a priority and took the first step by hiring a Data Security Manager to build a Information Security and Privacy Program. In this talk, we will discuss how we are applying risk management to the school and quantify risk by the impact to learning. We’ll also discuss the techniques used to start building a security program from the board level down to the grass roots of the school. Finally, we’ll end with lessons learned and successes of changing a culture to be mindful of security while keeping the focus on learning.
- Quantifying risk in the context of K-12 Education
- Building a security program from the board to students
- Changing educational culture to be mindful of security
- Building an Information Security and Privacy program for K-12 from the ground up.
About Patrick Tatro
Patrick is the Data Security Manager for Saint Paul Public Schools where he is responsible for building and maintaining their Information Security and Privacy Program. He also served as an Infantry Officer in the Minnesota National Guard. While in the National Guard he served 16 months in Iraq as an Infantry Platoon Leader. During that time he was awarded a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, two Army Commendation medals, and the Combat Infantry Badge.
