IT & SECURITY FOR SCHOOLS, TECHNICAL COLLEGES, AND UNIVERSITIES

Protect student data. Keep learning online. Prove you can recover.

NTS helps K–12 schools, technical colleges, and universities secure Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, control staff and vendor access, monitor networks and endpoints, and prove recoverability — whether we serve as your IT team or support the one you already have.

Reduce the chance that one phishing email or compromised account becomes a campus-wide outage.

Clarify which staff, contractors, and vendors can reach student and staff information. Prove that systems you manage can be restored in time to keep instruction running

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Your guide for education IT risk

One partner focused on the systems that keep teachers teaching.

We don’t replace your SIS, LMS, or classroom tools. Those stay with their vendors. NTS secures the surrounding environment (email, identities, endpoints, and networks) so it’s much harder for attackers or mistakes to turn a simple click into a ransomware, privacy, or instructional time problem.

IT incidents become learning and safety issues very quickly.

In education, “IT problems” mean missed instructional time, lost work, anxious families and students, and potential data exposure. A single phishing email or unpatched device can lead to ransomware, privacy concerns, and news coverage, whether you’re a K–12 district, technical college, or university.

Superintendents, principals, college leadership, and boards shouldn’t be guessing whether old accounts are still active, whether third parties can see more than they should, or whether a backup will actually restore critical systems in time to reopen classrooms or labs. You should be able to say, “We’ve secured the environment around our classrooms and campuses, and here’s the evidence our leadership, community, and insurers have seen.”

Operational Snapshot

  • Ransomware & Continuity Readiness.
  • Student Data Protection Staff & Vendor Access Control.
  • Optional 24/7 Monitoring & SOC.
  • Playbooks for phishing, account takeover, and ransomware affecting instruction.
  • On/offboarding workflows for teachers, staff, substitutes, and contractors.
  • Documented backup and timed restore tests you can show to leadership and insurers.

Common Education IT Risks

  • Compromised staff accounts used to request sensitive student information or change payments.
  • Former staff or vendors retaining access to student data and internal systems.
  • Shared devices and lab machines with little or no audit trail or baseline.
  • No tested recovery plan if ransomware hits file shares, lesson content, or administrative systems.

NTS helps schools and campuses turn vague IT risk into a clear, defensible plan.

We work with individual schools, districts, technical colleges, and universities that carry real accountability for student safety, continuity of learning, and public trust. Your instructional tools support teaching. NTS focuses on the users, devices, and networks you control that connect everything together. Our role is to translate technical controls into simple procedures and evidence that make sense to instructional leaders, deans, finance, boards, and insurers, so everyone can see that your environment is being actively managed and improved.

Our team of Senior Engineers

Why organizations choose NTS:

  • Security-first managed and co-managed IT built around teaching and learning.
  • Optional in-house SOC for 24/7 monitoring, triage, and escalation.
  • Playbooks for phishing, account takeover, and ransomware response.
  • Regular access and continuity checks for systems your organization manages.
  • Evidence you can share with leadership, boards, auditors, and insurers

About Us

A simple plan you can explain in one slide to leadership and the board.

You don’t have to overhaul everything at once. We start where you are, stabilize the environment around instruction and operations, and then build a program you can stand behind.

1.
Assess where IT risk touches instruction and operations

We document where you’re exposed today: Microsoft 365/Google Workspace posture, phishing and account takeover risk, staff and vendor access, backup and recovery posture for systems you manage, and who is watching alerts. You get a plain-language risk map prioritized by instructional impact and community risk.

2.
Stabilize & strengthen

We implement (or help your team implement) the controls that protect learning: MFA and Conditional Access where appropriate, phishing defense, disciplined onboarding/offboarding, data protection for student and staff info, verified backups with timed restore tests, and incident playbooks focused on ransomware and account takeover.

3.
Operate & prove

We either stay in and run those controls for you, or co-manage them with your internal IT and leadership. That can include centralized log review, vulnerability scanning, SOC/SIEM correlation, periodic access and continuity reviews, and reporting backed by evidence your leadership, boards, and insurers can actually use.

Start with an Education IT Risk & Compliance Assessment

What NTS secures around your education systems.

Your SIS, LMS, and core education applications are supported by their vendors. NTS focuses on the environment you manage: email, identities, endpoints, networks, and supporting services where most incidents begin.

Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace Hardening

We secure staff and student accounts, shared mailboxes, and collaboration tools so classrooms and labs can function without opening the door to account takeover or data exposure

  • MFA and Conditional Access strategies tuned for staff and high-risk accounts.
  • Phishing and malware protection for email and file sharing.
  • Baseline policies for student accounts that balance security with usability.
  • Retention and audit logging aligned to your policy and regulatory expectations.

Continuity & Learning Recovery

We design and test recovery around what cannot go down: access to learning platforms, shared content, communication with families and students, and administrative systems

  • Monitoring of sign-in activity, endpoints, and core systems (with optional SOC coverage).
  • Backup validation and timed restore tests for systems you manage that support instruction and operations.
  • Incident playbooks for ransomware, account takeover, and data exposure.
  • Patching and baseline enforcement across staff and shared student devices where feasible.

Access & Vendor / Partner Control

We help you keep a handle on who can access student data, staff files, and internal systems — including third-party vendors, after-school programs, and campus partners

  • Structured onboarding/offboarding for staff, substitutes, contractors, and vendors.
  • Periodic access reviews tied to role, school or campus, and data sensitivity.
  • DLP and sensitivity labels for student and staff information in email and storage.
  • Guidance for secure data exchange with vendors and partners.

Governance, Monitoring & Optional SOC

When leadership, auditors, or insurers ask, “Show us how you’re protecting student data and learning,” you shouldn’t have to scramble. We help you maintain current proof with the option to add full SOC coverage.

  • Centralized evidence: access reviews, restore tests, key policies, and training records.
  • Log collection and review across firewalls, endpoints, identity, and shared mailboxes.
  • Optional 24/7 SOC for correlation, enrichment, and escalation.
  • Executive reporting that ties IT risk to instructional time and community trust.

Flexible by design

Every school, district, and campus is different. Some need full IT operations support, including after-hours coverage. Others have internal IT and just need help with access cleanup, centralized logging, recovery testing, or 24/7 alerting. NTS can operate as your managed IT team, augment your staff in specific areas (like firewalls, server management, or SOC/SIEM correlation), or provide focused block-hour support for targeted projects. Scope and pricing are built around what you actually need.

What life looks like with — and without — a clear IT partner for your schools and campuses.

With NTS as your guide

  • You reduce the odds that a single incident cancels class, exposes data, or makes the news.
  • Leadership can see that access and continuity for systems you manage are under control.
  • Auditors, boards, and insurers receive clear, organized evidence of readiness and response.
  • Your team has playbooks for phishing, ransomware, and account takeover.
  • You spend more time supporting instruction and less time scrambling during incidents.

If nothing changes

  • Instruction can be disrupted by incidents that start in email or devices.
  • Former staff and vendors may retain access longer than anyone realizes.
  • Backups for systems you own may fail when you finally need them.
  • Each audit, incident, or insurance renewal becomes a scramble for documentation.
  • A single event can damage community trust and strain budgets.

Prefer a quick call?

Talk directly with an engineer about your environment, clinical systems, and what absolutely cannot go down.

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What you’ll walk away with

  • A plain-language view of current security and continuity risk.
  • A prioritized list of improvements with realistic timelines.
  • Guidance you can share with leadership, compliance, or insurance.
  • Next steps your team can actually execute.
  • Options for ongoing support — managed, co-managed, or project-based.

We’d love the chance to speak with you to show you how we can drastically relieve the stress that stems form your network’s security and streamline your processes to be ready for anything.