In our recent webinar looking at cybersafety in the education sector, we heard from David Fuller, Director of Operations at The MILL Academy, alongside Martin Lethbridge, Principal Sales Engineer from WatchGuard Technologies. The conversation focused on the realities of managing IT in education and the practical steps schools can take to strengthen their cyber resilience.

Here are our five key takeaways from the webinar…

Watch this video and you’ll meet our customer, David Fuller, Operations Director at MILL Academy, Witney, talking about his IT plans and specific Cybersecurity challenges for this multi-academy trust. David explains what it is like working with OX IT Solutions, as an extension of his IT team. He also gives his reasons for using Acronis for back up and disaster recovery and WatchGuard for firewalls, and the benefits he's seeing from using both solutions.

To avoid any cyber breach to your university, school, academy trust, college or nursery, it is always safer to ensure you get the right balance of cybersecurity protection for your timescales and budget. The technology and expertise do exist to counter these threats. So, where AI is the attacker, cybersecurity technology has advanced so that AI is the defence. A preventative approach is key.

Come and listen to one of our Education customers talk about their IT priorities in a multi-academy trust for the year ahead, including what they are using their cyber threat protection to do and the delivery of services in a busy IT department to support the curriculum goals for 2026.

You'll also hear about the latest threat types and trends in the Education cyber landscape, plus the way to address them, from an industry expert at one of our top technology partners, WatchGuard.