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David Dalby
Cyber Essentials MFA becoming mandatory
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Here we go again, although not directly funding, we have discussed the dreaded Cyber Essentials Certification previously, so here we go again. Our IT team have picked up to renew certificate from April 2026 all Cloud Based Services will require MFA with no exceptions. In principle this is a good plan for security, but we work mainly with students with profound disabilities, for whom setting up any type of MFA is going to be challenging if not impossible. As we use 365 we've got a problem looming, we do massive amount of work on accessibility so students can access and work independently but we're struggling to think how we work round this. Anyone else picked this up and thought about what you might do? I am considering if CE need a disability discrimination reminder!
David Dalby
Cyber Essentials MFA becoming mandatory
Created
Here we go again, although not directly funding, we have discussed the dreaded Cyber Essentials Certification previously, so here we go again. Our IT team have picked up to renew certificate from April 2026 all Cloud Based Services will require MFA with no exceptions. In principle this is a good plan for security, but we work mainly with students with profound disabilities, for whom setting up any type of MFA is going to be challenging if not impossible.
As we use 365 we've got a problem looming, we do massive amount of work on accessibility so students can access and work independently but we're struggling to think how we work round this. Anyone else picked this up and thought about what you might do? I am considering if CE need a disability discrimination reminder!