Miami-Dade County Public Schools – Information Technology Services

• Edward McAuliff, Chief Security Officer
• Debbie Karcher, Chief Information Officer
• Rolando Avila, Telecommunications Supervisor
  
  

Behind the scenes tour of Security and Data Center, ITS headquarters

Wednesday, March 11, 2015
10 a.m.

Information Technology Services
13135 SW 26 Street
Miami, Florida 33175

Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ (M-DCPS) is opening the doors of the Information Technology Services Security Center and sharing the measures used to keep Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ (M-DCPS) information systems secure.

This week, the Florida Department of Education announced that their servers were cyber-attacked last week, causing some of the delays students experienced during FSA testing.  M-DCPS was able to detect anomalies in our system last week during a non-testing day, and quickly put procedures in place to prevent any disruption of computer systems. Because of these proactive steps, what happened to the state did not affect M-DCPS.

Who prevented this from happening? How did we prevent it? We take the media to our information technology center for a behind-the-scenes look at how we monitor, track and safeguard our servers on a District level, at schools and on individual student computers.