Enact your incident management plan
Contact the NCSC, via https://report.ncsc.gov.uk
Contact your local law enforcement and Action Fraud,via https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/
Inform the Department for Education at this address: sector.securityenquiries@education.gov.uk
NCSC material and support
Ransomware advice and guidance for your IT teams to implement, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/mitigating-malware-and-ransomware-attacks
How to effectively detect, respond to and resolve cyber incidents, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/incident-management/cyber-incident-response-processes/developing-your-plan
Sign up to the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CiSP); a safe and secure environment that allows the NCSC to share threat information, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/keep-up-to-date/cisp
Enrol in the NCSC Early Warning service that helps the NCSC to rapidly notify organisations that might be affected by malicious software, available here: https://earlywarning.service.ncsc.gov.uk/
Test your incident response with an “Exercise in a Box”, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/exercise-in-a-box
Finally a data backup strategy and guidance is also available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/small-business-guide/backing-your-data
Further information
Back to school audit by NCSC and London Grid for Learning, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/cyber-security-going-back-to-school
Questions for school governors by NCSC and DfE, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/school-governor-questions
NCSC practical tips for everyone working in education, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/resources-for-schools
NCSC cyber security risk management guidance, available here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/risk-management-collection