EdTech: Focus on Higher Education

3 days ago | edtechmagazine.com | Brian T. Horowitz

Passive surveys are used both indoors and outdoors. “We tend to have a reasonable amount of outdoor Wi-Fi coverage near the bigger buildings,” Reinalda says. However, budgeting limits where the school can use passive site surveys, so they are only conducted when a new building has been built. “We don't have the budget to put passive devices in the Wi-Fi network everywhere,” says Reinalda.

1 week ago | edtechmagazine.com | Alexandra Frost

In the two years since Kris Hagel, CIO at Washington’s Peninsula School District, has overseen physical security, he’s had a similar experience. “I can see the whole picture,” he says of physical security and cybersecurity in his district. “It also helps to have school safety officers who are former law enforcement officers.

1 week ago | edtechmagazine.com | Brian T. Horowitz

Extreme Networks’ Cloud IQ integrates with Ekahau and Hamina Wireless to allow organizations such as schools to conduct wireless site surveys. With their dense deployment of Wi-Fi and the high-end devices in use, Bibona says, universities can be like a “mini Super Bowl” in terms of complexity. “These tools tell us how far apart these APs have to be for coverage,” she says. But not all wireless site surveys are the same.

1 week ago | edtechmagazine.com | Wylie Wong

Jun 17 2025 Security School districts are creating incident response plans, practicing them and writing after-action reports to discuss lessons learned. After realizing that network access problems were caused by a cyberattack, the IT department at Agua Fria Union High School District immediately shut down the network and launched its incident response plan.

1 week ago | edtechmagazine.com | Rebecca Torchia

Jun 16 2025 Security Don Hough, deputy associate director of CISA’s School Safety Task Force, stresses the importance of preparation and fail-safe measures in an environment where physical security and cybersecurity technologies converge. Students can’t learn effectively unless they’re safe. They must be kept equally safe from cyberthreats and physical threats, a task that has increasingly fallen to school technology departments.