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The Security Snapshot

Providing academy leaders with evidence of oversight in just seven days, without adding to their workload.
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The Security Snapshot is an education focused assurance review for schools and academy trusts.

It provides a clear, independent record of what is publicly visible about your organisation online at a specific point in time. It is documented in a format designed for safeguarding, governance, and board level oversight.

This is not a penetration test, vulnerability scan, or generic cyber audit. It is an assurance review built to help leadership evidence understanding and oversight of their external digital exposure.

To support this, the Security Snapshot is delivered with three distinct, evidence‑based outputs. Each serves a different governance purpose, and together they form a complete, auditable record of external visibility and leadership oversight.

Three Security Snapshot documents.

Assurance Statement

A formal record confirming completion of an independent external review, retained as evidence of governance and safeguarding oversight.

Enumerated Assets Workbook

A clear list of the websites and online services connected to your academy. Shows what is official, what is third party managed, and what exists online under your academy’s identity.

Security Snapshot Report

A concise, leadership friendly summary of key observations, written for governance discussion and risk registers.

How the Security Snapshot is delivered

Within seven days, our five‑step process gives trust leadership an independent, audit‑ready view of their external presence.

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External Cyber Assessment

  • External digital estate mapping: We discover visible websites owned by the academy to provide a clear inventory of your online presence.
  • Legacy technology & version integrity analysis: We identify outdated or unsupported technologies, flagging only the versions that require entry in your academy’s risk register.
  • Public contact security audit: We index your entire web presence to identify publicly visible emails and verify their security status.
  • Visitor safety & secure communication standards: We evaluate your website’s protective headers to ensure pupils and parents are shielded from browser-based threats.
  • Infrastructure & supply chain integrity: We analyse where your services are hosted to check for shared hosting risks and ensure your academy isn’t co-located with high-risk websites.
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Security Snapshot

  • Plain English technical translation: We remove the complex jargon to provide a clear, narrative driven overview that any governor or headteacher can confidently understand.
  • Executive summary & findings overview: A concise breakdown delivered in under 10 pages, explaining what we found, what it means for your academy, and the key areas requiring your attention.
  • Recommended considerations: We provide recommended considerations for each finding, allowing your board to make informed decisions at a pace that suits your academy.
  • Risk register ready descriptions: Receive your findings as pre-written risk descriptions, ready to be dropped directly in to your academy’s risk register.
  • Educational clause support mapping: We outline how this assessment helps initiate the conversation toward meeting 20+ educational clauses, providing the evidence to begin addressing your governance obligations.
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Enumerated Asset Workbook

  • Digital asset inventory: A complete list of all websites discovered during the assessment, providing total visibility of your academy’s public footprint.
  • IP Address & hosting mapping: We document the IP addresses and locations for your assets, helping you identify where your school data is stored.
  • Ownership & infrastructure verification: Details on who owns and manages the underlying infrastructure, allowing you to audit your third-party dependencies.
  • Filtering & Monitoring oversight: A document that enables leadership to verify that safeguarding filtering and monitoring standards are correctly applied across your estate.
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Assurance Statement

  • A formal verification document providing the audit ready evidence needed to demonstrate your academy’s proactive digital stewardship to insurers, governors and auditors.
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Executive Governance Briefing

  • Once your assessment is complete, we offer a dedicated 1-hour session with a cyber governance consultant to walk you through the results. This is an opportunity for leadership to ask questions and gain clarity on the next strategic steps. While your board ready documents are guaranteed within 7 days, this follow-up call remains available at your convenience to ensure you can exercise oversight with confidence.

The leadership outcome


For academy and trust leadership, the value of a Security Snapshot is not in discovering issues, but in being able to confidently say that the organisation’s external digital presence has been reviewed, understood, and considered.
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It gives leaders a position they can stand behind.
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Boards and senior leadership teams use the Snapshot to support clearer conversations about digital risk, safeguarding, and third party reliance, without those discussions becoming technical, speculative, or overly defensive.

Rather than relying on informal reassurance, inherited knowledge, or verbal explanations, leadership has something tangible to reference if and when questions arise from governors, auditors, inspectors, or insurers.

Once reviewed and discussed, the Snapshot allows leadership to record awareness, confirm ownership, and move forward without the lingering concern that something may have been overlooked or misunderstood.

The work is deliberately structured to respect leadership time. There is no need to prepare evidence, extract system data, or coordinate internal activity. The burden of discovery, interpretation, and documentation sits entirely with DarkoniX.

Delivered as a single, fixed scope engagement priced at £1,600, the Security Snapshot provides leadership with a complete, governance ready record of external visibility without weeks of effort, internal disruption, or ongoing commitment.

The outcome is not more workload, but clearer leadership confidence.

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