E-mail says students and staff can't log in from abroad

[Anonymous]

DCPS sent an email out this week saying people can't log in from outside of the continental United States anymore unless they their principal or assistant principal fills out some application.

Another layer of red tape for anyone trying to take a trip to Hawaii for an extended spring break it looks like.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone knows what prompted this? Was their a cyber security threat and a large number of folks logging in from abroad?

[Anonymous]

I work in cybersecurity and appalled this. Yes, foreign APT are always a problem! I’m unhappy DCPS uses Canvas. I did a risk assessment on Canvas and determined it to be a high risk and recommended not using it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work in cybersecurity and appalled this. Yes, foreign APT are always a problem! I’m unhappy DCPS uses Canvas. I did a risk assessment on Canvas and determined it to be a high risk and recommended not using it.

I recommended not using my my other, not DCPS to be clear.

[Anonymous]

A VPN will likely solve this issue.

[Anonymous]

Sounds remarkably reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A VPN will likely solve this issue.

Yup this is what we did when we lived abroad (although not for school reasons).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS sent an email out this week saying people can't log in from outside of the continental United States anymore unless they their principal or assistant principal fills out some application.

Another layer of red tape for anyone trying to take a trip to Hawaii for an extended spring break it looks like.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone knows what prompted this? Was their a cyber security threat and a large number of folks logging in from abroad?

Nah, they can still take the trip. They will just be officially absent. Which is ok. Staff can use leave. Student absences can be excused (or not) by admin.

I think there’s an effort to make sure enrolled students live in the district.

WRT staff, the location should not matter. I teach in another district. I had three days of medical testing at Hopkins recently. A parent who works at Hopkins spotted me. She approached me to about 6 feet away and asked if I was “M_. Whomever”, her teacher’s kid. I replied yes. We chatted briefly about her kid and school in general and then she left. Two days later, my principal emailed to ask me if I had been in Baltimore that day. I said yes. Then he asked why I didn’t take leave. I told him that I taught two classes, attended a meeting, and did my planning/grading at the hospital. His reply was “Okay.” Not “Okay, sorry I bothered you without checking first that you met your obligations that day.” Or “Okay, hope everything works out for you medically.”

[Anonymous]

What about people who are already abroad? Sucks for them.

[Anonymous]

I work in cyber and we just (6 months ago) cut all access from abroad.

I get cyber purposely keeps people in the dark about threats but come on people... pandemic, vaccines, new president.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS sent an email out this week saying people can't log in from outside of the continental United States anymore unless they their principal or assistant principal fills out some application.

Another layer of red tape for anyone trying to take a trip to Hawaii for an extended spring break it looks like.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone knows what prompted this? Was their a cyber security threat and a large number of folks logging in from abroad?

Boohoohoo, I'm sorry you have to reschedule your Hawaii vacation.

[Anonymous]

The email said you needed to contact the school to get access not that you couldn’t get access. Yes there have been some recent issues of student accounts getting hacked and disruptions happening in classes (I teach at the HS level and had to deal with this in my class). I assumed this was the school needing to add you to a whitelist so you can get access from your location.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS sent an email out this week saying people can't log in from outside of the continental United States anymore unless they their principal or assistant principal fills out some application.

Another layer of red tape for anyone trying to take a trip to Hawaii for an extended spring break it looks like.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone knows what prompted this? Was their a cyber security threat and a large number of folks logging in from abroad?

Nah, they can still take the trip. They will just be officially absent. Which is ok. Staff can use leave. Student absences can be excused (or not) by admin.

I think there’s an effort to make sure enrolled students live in the district.

WRT staff, the location should not matter. I teach in another district. I had three days of medical testing at Hopkins recently. A parent who works at Hopkins spotted me. She approached me to about 6 feet away and asked if I was “M_. Whomever”, her teacher’s kid. I replied yes. We chatted briefly about her kid and school in general and then she left. Two days later, my principal emailed to ask me if I had been in Baltimore that day. I said yes. Then he asked why I didn’t take leave. I told him that I taught two classes, attended a meeting, and did my planning/grading at the hospital. His reply was “Okay.” Not “Okay, sorry I bothered you without checking first that you met your obligations that day.” Or “Okay, hope everything works out for you medically.”

That mom's a bitch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in cybersecurity and appalled this. Yes, foreign APT are always a problem! I’m unhappy DCPS uses Canvas. I did a risk assessment on Canvas and determined it to be a high risk and recommended not using it.

I recommended not using my my other, not DCPS to be clear.

What? Both of your posts were confusing due to typos.

[Anonymous]

Why does Hawaii count as “abroad”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS sent an email out this week saying people can't log in from outside of the continental United States anymore unless they their principal or assistant principal fills out some application.

Another layer of red tape for anyone trying to take a trip to Hawaii for an extended spring break it looks like.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone knows what prompted this? Was their a cyber security threat and a large number of folks logging in from abroad?

Boohoohoo, I'm sorry you have to reschedule your Hawaii vacation.

Hmm. I was under the impression that Hawaii was part of the US.