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District tech director presents cybersecurity plan after PowerSchool breach; vendor contract and NIST framework highlighted
Summary
Tech director Dirk Van Curren outlined a 22-page district cybersecurity and incident response plan that uses the NIST framework, plans to contract a 24/7 endpoint-detection vendor, and cited the recent PowerSchool data incident as a catalyst for strengthening protections.
RSU 51/MSAD 51’s technology leadership presented a district cybersecurity plan at the March 6 board meeting and answered detailed questions about vendor monitoring, student privacy protections, and the August–February PowerSchool incident that affected many schools.
Dirk Van Curren, who identified himself as the district’s technology director, said the district prepared a 22‑page incident-response plan built around the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Cybersecurity Framework and templates supplied or recommended by MSMA (used in the meeting as the district’s insurance/cyber-insurance liaison). He told the board the plan is not a public document in full because it includes operational details the district does not want…
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