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District says it was not affected by PowerSchool breach; IT director details protections
Summary
District technology staff told the board Platte County School District #1 was not impacted by the late-December PowerSchool breach and described layered defenses—endpoint detection, a state-managed enterprise firewall with geo-fencing, ACLs, VPN plus multifactor authentication, and employee phishing tests—that they say prevented compromise.
Mister Gonzales told the board that although the PowerSchool incident in late December affected some organizations, "I am happy to report our school district was not involved." He said the likely attack vector in that incident was third-party access through a customer-service portal and that the district’s security posture — including advanced antivirus and…
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