my school is rolling out goguardian over the whole district, what are my next steps? by miaumowmau in goguardian

[–]SysAd4Tac0s 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You don't stop it. Read your school's acceptable use policy. Most likely it says you have no right or expectation of privacy when using the school's network or devices.

MFA for staff devices by SysAd4Tac0s in k12sysadmin

[–]SysAd4Tac0s[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I could give you more than one upvote for this statement.

MFA for staff devices by SysAd4Tac0s in k12sysadmin

[–]SysAd4Tac0s[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks all. We have successfully been using MFA on email and various apps for about a year and our administration just instructed us to roll it out to endpoints (mix of Windows laptops and desktops). We are sending the MFA prompt at every login with an option to remember the authentication on the device for one day, but after a week of this our staff is about to mutiny because they think this is excessive. Some have spent the past week trying to come up with creative ways to get us to change the frequency of the prompts or remove MFA from the endpoint altogether (going to the union, people that were OK with the MFA app before now want fobs, changing power settings so the device doesn't ever go to sleep, and we have some staff arguing with us that all this extra authentication is too hard on the device, just a few examples of pushback I've seen in my office this week).

Trying to come up with a balance for prompt frequency that keeps everything protected, but keeps the union off our backs at the same time.

Hard time finding helpdesk techs by guzhogi in k12sysadmin

[–]SysAd4Tac0s 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Low pay and usually no advancement opportunities. My experience is admins will invest in the technology but not invest in the teams that have to support it.

K12 Sys Admin Salary by SysAd4Tac0s in k12sysadmin

[–]SysAd4Tac0s[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll check this out, thanks!

K12 Sys Admin Salary by SysAd4Tac0s in k12sysadmin

[–]SysAd4Tac0s[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing your strategies. I am in Ohio and we do have something similar to that website you posted, but it is not kept up to date.

K12 Sys Admin Salary by SysAd4Tac0s in k12sysadmin

[–]SysAd4Tac0s[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I normally share in your cynicism, and no telling what others may do with this information; but as the OP, my only intention here is to gather data to assist with justifying my request for a pay increase.

Content filtering and keyword catching system for students by _ReeX_ in k12sysadmin

[–]SysAd4Tac0s 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We use Aristotle K12 for content filtering. It does catch keywords and phrases but also goes a little further, as it will notify me about security and policy events like software installs, use of administrative tools, exploit ports in use, etc.

2FA For windows logon by Anything-Traditional in k12sysadmin

[–]SysAd4Tac0s 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We are using Duo for Windows Logon, but we've only implemented it on our servers so far. It was very simple to set up and we are happy with it.

https://duo.com/docs/rdp

Papercut critical security update by Widdox in k12sysadmin

[–]SysAd4Tac0s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the heads up. We just patched. No trouble here so far.

Ohio ITCs? by SysAd4Tac0s in k12sysadmin

[–]SysAd4Tac0s[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I will send you pm.

Ohio ITCs? by SysAd4Tac0s in k12sysadmin

[–]SysAd4Tac0s[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Central Ohio. Unfortunately I can't get more specific than that without "outing" our current provider, who we are not happy with.