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Upgrade nears the finish line
We’re in the final sprint of the upgrade with the last few schools to go! By the end of the month every school across the country will have a smarter and safer internet connection. We recently visited a few schools to see how they’re getting on after the upgrade....
The Cloud Part 3: Security
A cloud is by far the safest place for your data. Clouds live in giant data centres operated by large organisations. In most cases they are built like fortresses. Guards patrol outside. Security cameras watch everything. No-one is going to break in and get physical...
A Pond Farewell
It’s a sad day in the office at N4L as we announce the closure of our education platform, Pond. The platform was initially built to connect educators with curated teaching and learning resources. The theory seemed pretty sound too - if we connect schools to the...
The Cloud Part 2
Moving to the cloud Moving to the cloud will save money, lighten your workload and give your more flexibility. Yet there is plenty of work to do before you will see the benefit. Cloud computing may be easier than managing your own servers but switching is rarely...
N4L helps 500 schools with new wireless support programme
We’re involved in a new project to help schools deliver consistent and sustainable classroom connectivity for their students and staff. The work we are doing is part of a programme led by the Ministry of Education providing IT network support extensions for schools,...
Filtered security settings – opting in vs out
To help our schools build safe online environments for learning, we’ve adjusted our default filtering settings for all Managed Network users. These 14 categories will now be blocked for all schools by default, once they have received the new Fortigate cyber security...