Why schools get targeted
A bigger target than most schools realise
Attackers go after schools because the data is valuable and the defences are often stretched. Ransomware shuts down a term's worth of work in a morning. Phishing emails walk straight past busy staff. Old enrolment portals and misconfigured Microsoft 365 tenants quietly leak student and parent information. And when something does go wrong, you need answers fast - not a vendor reading from a script.
What we do for schools
Security work that fits how schools run
Penetration Testing
Internal and external testing of your network, plus web and mobile apps - your portals, enrolment systems and parent apps - to find what an attacker would.
Microsoft 365 & Azure Reviews
Most schools run on Microsoft. We review your 365 and Azure setup for the misconfigurations that expose mailboxes, files and student data.
Essential 8 Assessments
A clear, honest read on where you sit against the ACSC Essential 8 - and a practical plan to lift your maturity that your IT team can actually deliver.
Incident Response
If you have been breached, or think you have, we help you contain it, work out what happened, and get back to teaching. Calm, fast, no jargon.
Phishing & Staff Awareness
Realistic phishing and phone-based tests, plus training that sticks - so teachers and admin staff become the layer that stops an attack, not the one that lets it in.
Dark Web & Breach Investigation
We check whether your school's data or staff credentials are already exposed online, and when something goes wrong we investigate what happened and how far it went.
Platforms & ST4S
We know the systems schools run
School IT is its own world. We have tested the platforms you rely on every day and understand how they connect to your data - so testing is faster, sharper, and we are not learning on your time.
- TASS
- Sentral
- Synergetic
- Studentnet
- Educonnex
- Cahoot Learning
- Cloudworks
Our testing is aligned to the Safer Technologies 4 Schools (ST4S) framework, and we help edtech vendors get their products ST4S-ready.
Why schools choose Clearnet Labs
People who have done this before
Education is our world
We work with independent schools across Australia and align our approach with AISNSW guidance. We speak your language and respect your community.
Former law enforcement
Our team includes ex-law-enforcement investigators. When the stakes are high - a breach, a sensitive incident, a board that needs answers - that experience matters.
Plain-English reports
You get findings your IT team can act on and a summary your executive and board can read. No 200-page wall of noise.
Let's protect your school community
Book a no-pressure call. We will talk through where you are, what is worth doing first, and what it costs.
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