Spring Cleaning for School Networks

Summer break is a busy time of year for K–12 school IT departments. It’s typically when districts replace aging hardware, roll out new cybersecurity tools and tackle major upgrades while students and the majority of teaching staff are out of the building. But those high‑stakes summer technology projects can’t happen unless the planning starts months earlier. Before purchase orders can be issued, IT leaders have a lot of decisions to make. This includes figuring out what to retire now versus what to patch for another year, how to consolidate overlapping tools without increasing security risk…