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Virginia Fusion Center walks school leaders through incident‑response planning and a Jefferson County case study
Summary
The Virginia Fusion Center urged districts to finalize incident‑response plans, test backups and define decision rights during incidents, using Jefferson County (AL) as a case study of prolonged outage and recovery challenges.
The Virginia Fusion Center used CyberCon to walk K‑12 leaders through a practical incident‑response planning exercise and to highlight common failures that lengthen recovery.
Chris Cruz, the fusion center’s cyber program manager, and analyst Madeleine Espie led a workshop that reviewed the incident‑response lifecycle — preparation, detection and analysis, containment, eradication, recovery and post‑incident review —…
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