What is a WARP – for schools?
Photographer: Diego Cervo | Agency: Dreamstime.comThe first task is to understand the WARP concept and the advantages it can bring to school IT. It is possible to run a successful WARP simply because it sounds like a good idea. However, if you first fully understand the WARP concept, and then apply that concept to your own environment, you will get even more out of the project. The official definition is that it is a Warning, Advice, and Reporting Point. Its purpose is to foster information- (and solution-) sharing between colleagues, and thereby to develop a more secure, responsive and robust cyberworld. If the component parts of the internet are more secure, then the whole nation will be more secure. First we should differentiate between members of the WARP and beneficiaries of the WARP. In a schools environment, the members are likely to be the IT staff of the different schools within a particular geographic region. The beneficiaries are all those who use the computer systems within
