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Build your school’s cybersecurity policies with less stress and zero guesswork

An easier way to build, distribute, and track cybersecurity policies, all in one place.

Creating and managing school cybersecurity policies used to be slow, inconsistent, and hard to track.

Staff miss emails, guidance regularly changes, and it’s unclear who’s read or signed policies. Many schools don’t even know where theirs are stored or if they meet standards.

Our policy builder makes this simple. Create, sign, and track policies in one place, built specifically for schools within the Secure Schools platform.

A smarter way to manage school cyber policies

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Build compliant policies with ease

Our pre-vetted, regularly updated templates align with the latest national standards to keep your school’s policies up-to-date.

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Tailor templates to your branding

Easily customise templates with your school’s name and branding to make them familiar and recognisable to your staff.

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Monitor engagement

Be ready for insurers with clear, up-to-date evidence of staff compliance. Easily track who’s viewed and signed each policy, with automated reminders for anyone with outstanding actions.

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Find out what gives us top marks

Our Policy Builder keeps your school compliant, informed, and secure, without the admin headache.

Find out what gives us top marks

Our Policy Builder keeps your school compliant, informed, and secure, without the admin headache.

Takes less than 2 minutes

to create and deliver policies

+60% increased sign-rate

compared to paper copies

1,000+ schools

using it worldwide

15+ regularly updated

education specific policies

Less admin. Better protection.

Whether you're a single school or a multi-academy trust, the policy builder scales to your needs and gives you control over a critical but often overlooked part of your cybersecurity plan.

Stay compliant

Our policies are aligned with the latest DfE Cyber Security Standards, NCSC guidance, and other local guidance. We keep these templates updated for you within the platform, so you can have confidence your staff are compliant.

Improve your cyber score

Just by creating and distributing policies in our policy builder, you’ll improve your school’s cyber score with each action you take!

Save time

One central place to build, track and update policies, no more chasing spreadsheets or outdated files

Reach everyone easily

Send, sign, and monitor in just a few clicks. Automatic reminders take care of the follow-up.

Policies built for education

Choose from a library of pre-built, education-specific cybersecurity policies, or upload your own. Here’s some of our most popular templates:


Anti-Malware
Policy

Anti-Malware Policy

Sets the guidelines of how anti-malware controls should be implemented and how they must be used. Establishing guidelines around the use of anti-malware protection will help protect the school's systems and data from malicious software (malware) and reduce the exposure to threats.


IT Acceptable Use
Policy

IT Acceptable Use Policy

Outlines the acceptable and responsible use of the schools IT systems and applications to protect both the user and the schools data assets, as well as ensuring compliance with any legal and regulatory requirements. Providing guidelines on how equipment must be used will help prevent misuse, unauthorised access and potential security incidents or breaches.


Firewall
Policy

Firewall Policy

Outlines the rules, configuration and use of firewalls to control network traffic between the schools internal network and the internet. This policy aims to help prevent unauthorised access, data loss, and to guard against potential security threats entering the internal network.


Password
Policy

Password Policy

Provides users with clear guidelines and rules for creating strong and memorable passwords in order to protect systems and applications from unauthorised access. This policy provides a consistent standard for how passwords should be created, and how they should be managed.


Ransomware
Policy

Ransomware Policy

Sets the guidelines of how anti-malware controls should be implemented and how they must be used. Establishing guidelines around the use of anti-malware protection will help protect the school's systems and data from malicious software (malware) and reduce the exposure to threats.

You’re just a few clicks away

Our Policy Builder is available on all paid Secure Schools packages.

You can also try building and distributing one policy for free on our Foundations tier.

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Primary or Special School Secondary or Independent School Multi-Academy Trust
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Access

£399

/year
Save 11% annually
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What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount
Best value
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Assisted

£549

/year
Save 15% annually
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What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount
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Certified

£999

/year
Save 12% annually
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What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount
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Verified

£1,399

/year
Save 10% annually
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What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount
Access
Access

£599

/year
Save 8% annually
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What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount
Best value
Assisted
Assisted

£849

/year
Save 10% annually
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What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount
Certified
Certified

£1,499

/year
Save 8% annually
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What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount
Recommended
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Verified

£1,899

/year
Save 10% annually
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What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount
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Primary School

£289

+VAT
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P.O.A.

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What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount
Best value
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Assisted

P.O.A.

Enquire here

What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount
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Certified

P.O.A.

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What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount
Recommended
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Verified

P.O.A.

Enquire here

What's included?

  • Access to platform
  • Phishing simulations
  • Policy builder
  • Awareness training
  • School board awareness
  • Self-evaluation audit
  • External vulnerability scan
  • Assessor-led audit
  • Bespoke services discount

Comparison table

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Access
Assisted
Certified
Verified

Access to Secure Schools platform

Set up and activate your Secure Schools platform access for your school or trust.

Phishing simulations

Simulations closely mimic real education-sector phishing emails and can be tailored by trust, school and even department.

Policy builder

Access a library of cybersecurity document templates to support your school or multi-academy trust in meeting DfE, ESFA, RPA, and Cyber Essentials requirements and expectations. Researched, crafted and kept up-to-date by the Secure Schools Compliance and Certification team. You can also upload and distribute your own policies through the platform.

Awareness training

A suite of awareness training for your teachers and staff. Make security second nature, empowering them to recognise threats and respond in accordance with your cybersecurity plan

School board awareness training

Make you or your school governor knowledgeable, compliant, and ready to implement the DfE's updated standards in less than 20 minutes. Keep your learning environment safe while building a culture of awareness and resilience against digital threats.

Self-evaluation audit

Our Self-Evaluation Audit is a comprehensive questionnaire designed to help you understand your IT systems, processes, and potential cybersecurity risks. On completion, you receive a gap analysis report based on standards set by UK bodies such as the Department for Education. The self-evaluation audit will give you a series of suggestions and actions which will help you improve cyber resilience within your school or trust. Secure Schools Certified offers a range of solutions to help you match and exceed these government standards, such as phishing simulations, awareness training and policy builders.

External vulnerability scan

Test the school's offensive security by scanning and analysing vulnerabilities existing in the IT systems. Our team uses the tools that attackers use during the early stages of some attacks.

Assessor-led audit

The assessor-led audit process involves gathering comprehensive information from various sources to thoroughly understand your IT systems, processes, culture, and overall cybersecurity risk. We assess all collected data to create an in-depth report that is suitable for presentation to any stakeholder within your school or trust.

Bespoke services discount

Exclusively with our Verified tier, you will receive discounted rates on all of our cybersecurity services, such as penetration testing, tabletop exercises and one-to-one consultations.

Try it for free

With our Foundations tier, you can build and test our policy builder before you buy, along with use of cyber score!

Alternatively, you can get started right away with the full experience with our cybersecurity packages.

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