Okay, so this may not be a good time to call Comptroller DiNapoli’s office to find out whatever happened to the K-12 data security audits they had told me they would be conducting last year. Ken Lovett reports: State Controller Thomas DiNapoli is taking major heat for the office blunder that led to the Social…
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NYS Comptroller Audit: North Tonawanda City School District – Information Technology (2023M-102)
NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently released an audit of the North Tonawanda City School District. Summary: Issued Date: November 03, 2023< [Read complete report – pdf] Audit Objective Determine whether North Tonawanda City School District (District) officials properly secured user account access to the network and managed user account permissions in financial and student information…
NYS Comptroller Audit: Brentwood Union Free School District – Information Technology (2023M-83)
NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently released an audit of the Brentwood Union Free School District on Long Island. Summary: Issued Date: November 03, 2023 [Read complete report – pdf] Audit Objective Determine whether the Brentwood Union Free School District (District) Board of Education (Board) and officials ensured computerized data was safeguarded by monitoring network user…
Audits of New York schools and the State Education Department reveal ongoing significant concerns
In May, the NYS Comptroller’s Office released an audit conducted to determine if the New York State Education Department (SED) consistently follows all laws and regulations regarding the safety and privacy of students’ data, and whether SED is properly monitoring school districts to ensure they are complying with the legislation and regulations that govern data…
New York audit: School districts unprepared for cyber attacks
Kathleen Moore reports: Student data, including names, birth dates and addresses, are not always kept secure by school districts or the state Education Department, the state Comptroller’s Office found in an audit issued Tuesday. The Education Department “has not taken the fundamental steps or improved the technical controls needed to secure its own critical systems,” the…
New York State School District Audits Released in June
New York State Comptroller DiNapoli released more school district audits in June. As always, some of the audits do not reveal all the concerns or recommendations. Some concerns or recommendations are shared with districts confidentially for security reasons. Here are summaries of audits of school districts released in June that relate to school district IT:…