LGfL steps up its cyber security resilience package due to increased risk

The charitable trust, LGfL – The National Grid for Learning, is “set to bolster online defences for schools in response to the National Cyber Security Centre’s alert to act now, following Russia’s attack on the Ukraine,” says John Jackson, CEO. The trust has stepped up its cyber security resilience package to include monitoring, identification, sandboxing¹ and the eradication of ever-evolving threats from phishing attempts, malware, hacks, viruses and ransomware.

LGfL has provided services to the public sector over many years and is approved by the governing bodies for the Public Service Network (PSN) and Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) to provide secure access to systems across the public sector, including central government systems.

Newly appointed as the only UK Platinum Partner for Malwarebytes, LGfL is using its significant group buying power to supply schools with cyber security solutions at significantly discounted prices, to help  safeguard their ever-tightening budgets and their mass procured devices purchased for remote learning during lockdown.

In addition to the existing Incident Response (threat remediation), LGfL is now able to offer:

• Endpoint Protection (threat prevention)
• Endpoint Detection and Response (threat prevention, monitoring, sandboxing, isolation and rollback)
• Endpoint Protection for Servers (threat prevention for servers)
• Endpoint Detection and Response for Servers (threat prevention, monitoring, sandboxing, isolation and rollback for servers)

Using its Malwarebytes OneView console, LGfL will also be able to give third-party support organisations (PSOs) greater visibility and control over what is happening across multiple sites. It will also be able to provide full information on licences issued/used through its OneView Portal and recover and redistribute any unused licences, helping schools to save money.  Existing licences will be transferred on to the console.

Through its full CyberCloud solution, LGfL is now also able to offer 12 layers of protection to schools using its Let’s Get Digital Broadband Service, including:

1. JANET:IP transit and DDoS (Denial of Service) protection – cyberattacks aimed at disrupting the normal traffic of a target’s servers, services, or networks by overwhelming the infrastructure, at or around the target, with a large amount of Internet traffic
2. Core firewalls to protect the network – a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules
3. Security Operations Centre – alerting and monitoring to protect the network
4. Local school firewalls
5. Sophos antivirus for workstations, servers and home use – software that detects and cleans up viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, adware and other malicious applications
6. Intercept X managed threat response for workstations and servers – anti-ransomware technology that detects malicious encryption processes and shuts them down before they can spread across a network. Intercept X prevents both file-based and master boot record ransomware
7. Meraki Mobile Device Management – that allows users to manage mobile devices from the cloud in a secure environment
8. Malwarebytes incident response and automated remediation – that detects and removes malware from computers
9. Email protection including MailProtect filtering (Cloudmark) – a cloud-hosted, email filtering system that harnesses the combined strength of multiple market-leading technologies to offer protection against email-borne viruses, malware, fraud and phishing, as well as filtering unwanted bulk mail. And Egress encryption which encrypts the message so that it is secure in transit and when it reaches the recipient.
10. Web filtering – provided by Webscreen a highly flexible web filtering system designed to allow establishments and groups, such as MATs, to have access to local filtering settings and Netsweeper which enables organizations to protect internet users from harmful online content and provides web filtering, digital monitoring, and online activity reporting solutions to ensure digital safety on-premises and in remote environments
11. End user training including Sophos Phish Threat which educates and tests end users through automated attack simulations, quality security awareness training, and actionable reporting metrics
12. Research and awareness – National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Security Audit and Newsletters etc.

For further information on LGfL’s cybersecurity resilience packages, please contact:
Gareth Jelley
LGfL’s Cyber Security Centre of Excellence
gareth.jelley@lgfl.net

Note

¹Sandboxing  keeps potentially malicious programs or unsafe code isolated from the rest of the organization’s environment. This way, it can be analysed safely, without compromising the operating system or host devices. If a threat is detected, it can be removed proactively.