School districts don’t need more tools—they need a clear way to reduce risk without adding more work to already stretched IT teams. This checklist gives district leaders practical steps to tighten admin access, improve phishing reporting, watch for identity abuse in Microsoft 365, streamline investigations, and focus protection where it matters most. It’s built to help K-12 teams reduce identity, phishing, and ransomware risk while protecting learning time and showing leadership what’s working.
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Once attackers are inside, the first machine they land on usually isn't the one they want. Lateral movement is how they work their way deeper into your environment, using the same remote access tools your admins rely on every day.
RMMs, or remote monitoring and management tools, are just about everywhere in IT. And for good reason.hey give teams fast access to keep things running (and fix obvious “Layer 8s”). Your organization’s tech whiz down the hall can see your screen and move your mouse,, all while looking like a normal remote session. Now put that same access in the hands of an attacker, and they can run commands, move across every machine on the network, and quietly disable the security tools watching them. It’s the perfect setup for ransomware, running through the same trusted channel IT teams rely on every day. In this live virtual event, we'll break down why RMMs create such a persistent threat, one where we’ve seen abuse jump 277% year over year. But we’ll end on a high note, showing you what it takes to close the gap, beyond visibility alone.
Go inside Operation Riptide with John Hammond, Kyle Hanslovan, and FBI AD Brett Leatherman to see how defenders disrupt and arrest global cybercrime groups.
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