b'POLICE CYBERALARM The EN Digital team are happy to offer free advice on Police CyberAlarm.A Cyber Security Breaches survey (2022) conducted by the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) found 41% ofprimary schools and 70% of secondary schools surveyed had identified cyber breaches or atacks during 2021-2022. Secondaryschoolssawasignificantincreaseinidentifiedbreachesinattacksin2022over2021with70%reporting breaches in 2022 compared to 58% in 2021.Schools hold a substantial amount of personal, and often sensitive, data on their staff, pupils and their families.They may also hold information on behalf of volunteers, contractors and other partners.What is Police CyberAlarm?Police CyberAlarm is a tool to help you understand and monitor malicious cyber activity against your network. Thisservice is made up of two parts: monitoring and vulnerability scanning.Police CyberAlarm will detect and provide regular reports of suspicious cyber activity, enabling your school to identifyand take steps to minimise your vulnerabilities.The data collected by the system only contains summary information (meta data and header information) aboutcommunications your school receives from the internet. The system is designed to protect personal data, tradesecrets and intellectual property.The EN Digital team will assist with signing up to Police CyberAlarm and install a virtual or physical Police CyberAlarmCollector on your network, which will be used to collect and process traffic logs to enable the identification ofsuspiciousandmaliciousactivityfromyourfirewall/internetgateway,NetworkIntrusionDetection/Preventionsystem (IDS/IPS), Network Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam filters.Police CyberAlarm is a monitoring system and does not interfere with normal network operations.'