Stanislaus County Office of Education - Information Systems Department

Our office will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and Friday. We will be back to our regular hours on Monday, Nov. 29th. Our department would like to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!🦃

This Thursday, November 11th, we will honor our very own Yen Tran and all veterans for their service and sacrifice. SCOE offices will be closed on Thursday, and we will return to our normal schedule on Friday. Thank you, Veterans!

Cybersecurity warning from FBI regarding the HelloKitty ransomware bad actors:

FBI Warning: HelloKitty Adds DDoS for Quick Extortion | Cyware Hacker News The FBI has issued a flash alert warning against the HelloKitty ransomware group who has now started threatening victims with DDoS attacks. Learn more!

Featuring one of our talented Programmer Analysts, Cinnamon! She is the lead on our Laserfiche support and is currently juggling a number of projects including an upcoming Laserfiche server upgrade.

TLR Halloween costume "lunch break" downtown walk about in Modesto. This year's theme was Commercials/Infomercials. For those who know our team members well, can you guess who is wearing the following? LiMu Emu & Doug, Flo from Progressive, Jake from State Farm, Lil Sweet-Dr. Pepper, Marty McFly, NyQuil Sleeper, Billy Mays-OxiClean, Hamburger Helper Man, Travelocity Gnome, Hamburglar, ASPCA-Sarah McLachlan, Mr. Clean, Discover Card tech guy-Peggy, Maytag guy and the Most Interesting Man in the World.

Featuring our talented Programmer Analyst, Dale, who is currently working on projects for the Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA) group.
https://www.stancoe.org/division/selpa

We had a great time at SCOE's Annual Kickoff last Friday! This year's theme was "High Hopes." We had a motivational speaker, pumpkin contest, photo booth, and visited classrooms at the Stanislaus Military Academy, Teel Campus. We also raised several thousand dollars for SCOE's scholarship program!

Our division was featured at the SCOE Board meeting this morning for the many projects completed the past year in collaboration with other divisions. Our fearless leader and CTO, Burt, presented on our behalf.

Check out the new Foothill Horizons Outdoor Education website that we just launched!

Foothill Horizons | www.stancoe.org Foothill Horizons OUTDOOR SCHOOL SUMMER CAMP Friendship! Independence! Imagination! Fun! SITE RENTAL Foothill Horizons is a California Department of Education (CDE) and California Outdoor School Association (COSA) certified residential outdoor school in the foothills of the central Sierra. Amid 143....

Featuring our excellent web developer, Gregg, who is currently working on projects for our Hearing Conservation and Assistive Technology programs at SCOE.

What do you think about our recent entry way paint and design?

SCOE's recently remodeled break/lunch room is beautiful and inviting. Thanks to our Facilities group for their work!

Featuring two of our super co-workers, Frankie and Peter, who are doing a great job with the Beyond the Basics - Excel class!

Featuring two of our amazing co-workers, Peter and Yen, who are virtually working with Foothill Horizons to launch their new website in the coming days!

Featuring two of our awesome co-workers, Jenifer and Ubence, who are collaborating with PaRC today on some QCC payroll testing.

Thank you to our Facilities team for finding such a talented artist to paint the new wall art in our conference/meeting room. This will keep the new ideas flowing! 😁

Good Morning from Info Systems - Have a GREAT day! 😊

Happy Labor Day! We will be closed on Monday and back to our regular 8 to 5 schedule on Tuesday, 9/7.

Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM are among some of the business leaders who met with President Biden at the White House this week to discuss how the government can partner with private sector to improve national cybersecurity. Google pledged to invest more than $10 billion over the next five years in cybersecurity and will train 100,000 Americans in tech support and data analytics while IBM pledged to train over 150,000 people in cybersecurity skills.

https://lnkd.in/eF_BaY4i
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/apple-google-amazon-ceos-head-to-white-house-for-cybersecurity-meeting/

Check out our fall classes and sign up! https://www.stancoe.org/infosys

Happy Friday everyone!

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