We're on a mission to keep schools safe, secure, and compliant — without adding unnecessary pressure or workload to the people who matter most.
Digital Hygiene is about the everyday habits that keep schools safe, secure, and compliant — without adding pressure or workload.
The approach
It's not about doing everything. It's about getting the right basics in place, consistently, so small issues don't become serious problems.
The focus
Digital Hygiene focuses on preventing those moments — not through fear or complexity, but through sensible habits, visibility, and support.
The fit
Just like personal hygiene, Digital Hygiene is about finding a routine that fits your school — without unnecessary complexity or workload.
Just like personal hygiene, Digital Hygiene is about finding a routine that fits your school. The everyday habits, protections, and support that keep things running safely without adding unnecessary complexity or workload.
Routine — ongoing care, not one-off fixes
Prevention-first — reducing risk before incidents happen
Practical — designed for real schools with real constraints
Shared — not just an IT responsibility
Supported — tools and people working together
Essential tools. Thoughtfully chosen. Aligned to DfE Standards.
The Digital Hygiene Kit brings together the essential tools school leaders need to keep schools safe, secure, and compliant. It's a curated collection based on what actually works in schools — designed to reduce risk with minimal effort and maximum impact.
Whitening Strips
Restore your data with a gleaming clean copy. Backups allow you to bounce back quickly after an attack or accident.
No backups? You're one incident away from disaster.
Concero Backups comes in two variants and both meet DfE Digital Technology Standards, RPA and NCSC guidelines.
Office 365 Backups
Covering data in Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint and your Email/Calendars. Yearly cost per staff member — students free. Unlimited retention and storage space.
On-Premise Server Backups
Keeping a local and cloud copy of your data. Priced per GB backed up to the cloud.
Mirror
Reflect on your current EdTech posture. Measure your school against all 11 DfE Digital Technology Standards.
If you don't know your risks, you can't fix them.
The DfE Digital & Technology Standards are 11 individual standards covering a wide range of topics. Our Benchmark reports back on your compliance, asking your team key questions to produce the results.
Easy-to-follow reports are delivered during a follow-up meeting where you can ask our experts anything. For Multi Academy Trusts, we can organise a trust-wide comparison report — please enquire for a trust discount.
Wash Bag
Keep your logins zipped up tight. No sticky notes. No reused passwords. No easy way in.
Without it, you're one weak password away from exposing data.
With schools needing to share a range of different logins across the organisation, and many staff using different platforms, password managers offer an easy way to maintain a password vault — allowing strong, unique passwords with staff only needing to remember one.
We partner with all leading password manager solutions, but we highly recommend 1Password.
Toothbrush
Daily brushing. Daily protection. Stay up to date, block vulnerabilities, and stop threats before they take hold.
Unpatched systems are a hacker's dream — and schools often fall behind.
Schools run a wide range of software, and keeping it updated with security fixes can cause headaches. Patch Management ensures all software on your devices is automatically kept up to date and reports the status centrally.
Shampoo
Lathers up onboarding and rinses away old accounts. Automatically create user accounts and clean up access when people leave.
Manual handling is messy — miss one, and it's like handing hackers a spare key.
Our exclusive User Automate product syncs data from any leading MIS (Bromcom, Arbor, SIMS + more) into your key platforms — including Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Apple Classroom, Jamf, or any combination.
Our software will create and update users, email logins to nominated staff, create teams or classrooms, deactivate leavers, and sync photos and calendars.
Conditioner
Smooth out your cyber defences. Combines policy building, phishing simulations, and awareness training to strengthen your cybersecurity posture.
No policies? No awareness? That's how schools get breached.
Our partnership with Secure Schools allows us to offer their Cyber Assisted Package, including:
Phishing Simulations · Policy Builder · Awareness Training · Training for Governors.
Our expert team will guide you through the use of the platform.
Brush
Brush up your defences with expert-led sessions. Based on NCSC Cyber Security Training for Schools — essential learning for all staff.
Phishing, scams, and fake logins all rely on one thing: untrained users.
Training is available in person and remotely, delivered by our expert team — covering:
eSafety (for staff or parents) · Cyber Security (for staff and governors) · Accessibility Tools · General Training.
Deodorant
Your right guard for safe, secure, compliant IT. Fully managed or working with your team, we eliminate EdTech stress and stop cyber threats.
Small IT issues fester fast — and hackers can smell them.
Our award-winning IT support packages for Education include:
Helpdesk Support · Onsite Support · Fully Managed Support · Escalated Support · Strategic Support.
The Department for Education has set out cyber security expectations for schools to work towards by 2030 in their Digital and Technology Standards.
Digital Hygiene is designed to support schools in building the everyday routines that underpin those expectations — from access management and staff awareness to resilience and recovery.
Sustainable habits over one-off compliance.
Exploring the Digital Hygiene Kit is a great starting point. Designing a routine helps clarify priorities.
But understanding what will genuinely add value to your school takes a conversation.
We act as a critical friend — listening first, asking the right questions, and offering honest guidance based on real experience in schools.
We don't recommend solutions without understanding your setup.
Every school's different, and so is every partnership. Now that you've seen what we can do, here's how it can all come together.
THE COMPLETE SERVICE
Common for MATs and Secondary Schools.
For schools that want everything taken care of. A complete solution that covers every part of your IT, from daily fixes and updates to long-term digital strategy.
COLLABORATIVE SERVICE
Popular with Independent Schools, Primaries and schools with in-house IT teams.
For schools with their own IT teams or who want extra expertise and capacity. We work side by side with your staff, filling gaps, solving challenges, and sharing knowledge.
FLEXIBLE & ON-DEMAND
Often used by individual Primaries and Secondaries.
For schools that know what they need. Choose from individual products, projects, or services — from procurement to accessibility — and build a setup that fits your school perfectly.
However you choose to work with us, every partnership is built on our connected range of products and services designed for schools, trusted by people.
If you'd like to explore Digital Hygiene further or simply talk things through, we're here. No pressure, no jargon — just an honest conversation about what will actually help your school.
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