IT FOR EDUCATION
Leading Education ICT
Breathe technology has its roots in delivering second to none IT and Cyber Security for the Education
Sector. We do it, because it’s where we want to be. It’s our passion and our industry sector of
choice.
We understand completely that the school’s primary function is to provide high quality teaching and
learning to its students. The world is ever changing and so is the way that education is delivered,
funded and that the challenges change.
We have expert understand of IT and Cyber Security for Multi Academy Trusts, Schools and Colleges.
Public funded and independent.
It’s a job, but it’s more than that. It’s giving back to the community and affecting young people’s
lives.
“We’re very good at taking the complexity out of Cyber Security and ensuring you have a good system that doesn’t break the bank and it’s managed well….”
MD & Snr. IT Management Consultant
Download your free copy of the DFE Digital Standards and Guidelines Booklet for Schools. It was
compiled by Breathe to provide you with an easy to use guide.
our Education sector customers
Our Accreditations
Breathe are a certified security consultancy business. Below is a break down of our professional qualifications
and memberships.
ISACA
- ISACA sets the guidelines and best practice that relates our system audits
- https://www.isaca.org/
NCSC
- ISACA sets the guidelines and best practice that relates our system audits
- https://www.isaca.org/
ISO 9001
- Breathe partner with the National Cyber Security Centre to ensure we are up to date with Cyber Security and the Government (Our Sponsor is the UK Police Anti-Terrorism Unit)
- CiSP - NCSC.GOV.UK
- Breathe are ISO 9001 Certified and have a Quality management System in place
Police Cyber Alarm
- ISO 9001 is the international gold standard for ensuring high quality services to your customers
- Breathe are ISO 9001 Certified and have a Quality management System in place
- https://www.iso.org/iso-9001-quality-management.html
SANS Institute
- ISACA sets the guidelines and best practice that relates our system audits
- https://www.isaca.org/
IASME
- Globally recognised institute for Cyber Security. They are responsible for the SANS Top 20 Security System
- https://www.sans.org/uk/
- IASME is responsible for the Government backed Cyber Essentials Certification Programm
- Breathe currently undergoing the programme to become a Certification Body and Auditor for Cyber Essentials. We already have a partnership in place to accredit schools/Trusts
ISO 27001
- IASME works with the government and most other Cyber Security authorities and provides training and certification in Cyber Security
- IASME is responsible for the Government backed Cyber Essentials Certification Programm
- Breathe currently undergoing the programme to become a Certification Body and Auditor for Cyber Essentials. We already have a partnership in place to accredit schools/Trusts
Our services to Mat’s, Schools and Colleges
Cyber Security
- Make brochure available for Schools Cyber Security Audits
- Schools Cyber Security Brochure
- Office 365 security in Schools
- Image of Cyber Security Framework for Schools
- Cyber Security Technology Baseline
We align pour Cyber Security Mythologies closely with the guidelines from the DFE and NCSC
(national Cyber Security centre).
Cyber Security solutions and services are provided to schools that work with us through IT Managed
Services or specifically Cyber security support only. It can be provided as a one off project or ongoing
managed Cyber security Services.
Our Approach
Cyber Review & Security Posture Score: Audit based on industry best practice and the latest
government guidelines (DFE & NCSC). We offer a gap analysis, risk assessments, audits, Penetration
testing and Phishing attacks. Speak to us and we’ll help you identify the best approach!
Cyber Defences
Ensuring you have the minimum base line of technologies in place to protect you,
the business, the data and the staff.
Cyber Readiness
Systems alone is simply not enough. You need a monthly report confirming your
security and recovery systems are maintained, tested, up to date and fit for purpose. We have a
clearly defined Cyber Security Framework that we can help you implement with minimal cost and
complexity.
Cyber Recovery
Ensuring you have a backup plan with disaster recovery that covers the Cyber Risk
and it’s been agreed by you, to be suitable. It includes the latest government requirements around
offsite/offline backup not held on your main network. Our Private Cloud is a brilliant option!
We help you implement a Cyber Incident Response plan, ensuring everyone knows how to identify
and respond to an attack.
Cyber Certification
Once we have implemented our processes and Cyber security Technology
baselines, certification becomes simple. We provide a hand-held approach to getting you Cyber
Essentials Certified. This government recommended certification, provides you, your staff and
customers with the peace of mind that your systems and processes have been externally vetted.
You’ve done everything within reason to ensure your business is safe.
Our Approach
Unified Communications - Connectivity and Voice
Three main aspects of unified communications include chat, video, and voice calls. Email
can be considered as a part of a broader unified communications package. After all, it is vital
to business communication.
Breathe provide specialist knowledge, access to all the main stream ISP’s and Vendors and can
ensure best pricing through benchmarking these for you.
Typical Services includes
- Mobile phones with Flexi Contracts that allow your staff to have different networks on one bill and contract
- Up to 10GB Radio Link Connectivity Between buildings
- Ofcom approved mobile signal boosting where you have low signal
- Site to Site Links over the Internet and SDWAN
- Azure Express Route
- The latest firewalls and security options with your connections
Cloud Solutions
Networks
- All office 365 Licensing including A3 and A5
- Traditional Microsoft Schools Agreements that includes Servers and Desktops, but also includes Office 365
- Hosted Offsite offline Backup in our Private Cloud – Click here for more information
Breathe can the schools team, plan the deployment, often starting with an IT Audit, helping us
understand what is in place.
Migration of Office 365 and even consolidation of multiple tenants, creating single domains for a
Trust is our every day bread and butter business
IT Infrastructure
Help Primary Schools and Smaller Schools completely Migrate to the Cloud, retaining only the
required infrastructure at the school. This often includes connectivity, WIFI and Switching. However,
this must be good enough to benefit from the cloud services
Secondary Schools, Colleges and Trust Teams often have Hybrid Environments, to get the best out of
the Cloud Services that work for them such as the MIS, Office 365 and various applications. They
often prefer to retain some virtualised server and storage infrastructure
Hardware & Software Procurement
Schools have the responsibility to ensure best value and we are familiar with the 3-quote process or
the use of tender portals such as CPC, YourICT and the CCS framework.
Each school is assigned a dedicated Breathe account manager to provide a ‘one-stop-shop’ for your
daily IT needs, ensuring great service and benchmarked best value pricing
Project Work and Professional Services
Typical projects include
- Office 365 Migrations and SharePoint development
- It Strategy implementation and Digital transformations
- New cloud telephone systems to reduce cost and standardise telephony across schools
- Server and storage implementations
- Firewall and other security solution installations
- Backup and Disaster Recovery Systems
- New improved, reduced price connectivity. Normally leased lines with a secondary failover
connection - 1GB or 10GB Building to building links
- New switching hardware and cabling
- WIFI Surveys and the latest WIFI Technology
- IT Audits
- Cyber Security Audits, Penetration testing and Simulated Phishing Attacks
- New build or extension projects
- Thin client Computing and Chromebooks
- 1:1 iPad deployments
IT & Cyber Security Managed Services and Support
We offer three types of IT managed Services with some options.
1) A School or Trust with an existing Team
- Breathe becomes part of the team and extends the internal Teams capabilities whilst coaching
them to continually develop. We provide cover for holidays or when additional resources are
needed. - With the growing need for Cyber security, we provide Cyber security management Support for the
SLT and Technical Cyber Security Support for the internal IT Team.
2) Smaller schools or Primary Schools with no internal IT teams
A fully outsourced IT solution that is cost effective and caters for all the IT needs. Including a close
working relationship with the SLT, great remote support for staff, as many site visits that may be
required and specialist knowledge on Cyber Security and Cloud solutions.
3) Cyber Security Managed Services
Managed Cyber security services is relevant for any size of Trust or school, bringing together a set of
services, allowing us to deploy our Cyber security Framework for schools. The IT Team take care of
the day to day running, whole Breathe’s expert Security team takes care of the monitoring and
maintenance of the Cyber security Systems. The backup and disaster 8recoveru process and systems
for part of this.
Cybersecurity policies and processes are implemented with regular meetings and management
report for SLT.
We deliver Support UK Wide & Some EU Countries
Our Cambridge HQ Serves
London & East Anglia (including Cambridge, Peterborough, Luton, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Hertford, Watford, Stevenage, Bishops Stortford, Harlow, Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich).
Our Sheffield Office Serves
50 Miles around Sheffield, covering South Yorkshire.
We provide International IT Outsourcing & Managed Services
Europe Wide (currently in France, Germany, Austria, Portugal)
If you have a site abroad call us to find out about how we can deliver an efficient and cost effective service is the relevant languages with a UK centralised helpdesk team and EU based site engineers.
