College Station ISD reviews cybersecurity posture, proposes Texas A&M managed detection partnership

College Station ISD trustees heard a report July 15 on the district’s cybersecurity systems and a proposed partnership with Texas A&M to provide managed detection and response. Staff said the partnership would add continuous monitoring, threat hunting and an on-call incident response team to the district’s existing firewall, content filter, network segmentation and endpoint protections.

The presentation, delivered by district IT staff and representatives from Texas A&M cybersecurity operations, laid out current protections and what the proposed contract would provide. District staff described core defenses — a perimeter firewall, an e-rate–required content filter, network segmentation, endpoint detection and response and a patch/update program — and emphasized user education as a priority. "Antivirus on steroids is what this essentially is," a district presenter said,…