WEYBURN - Shelley Toth, superintendent of division services and chief financial officer for the South East Cornerstone Public School Division spoke to the division’s board members on March 25 during their regular open business session. Toth pointed out some important details covered in a recent monitoring report.
The report that dealt with the role of the director of education regarding fiscal responsibility covered a broad range of topics and all were considered as having been met with agreed-upon professionalism and care.
The area of information systems security procedures is a special concern with regards to acceptable use of information technology (IT), including service, privacy and confidentiality, as well as quarterly reporting, she suggested.
In her report, Toth noted the division maintains a log of all IT interruptions and “will provide an annual review of service levels and incidents to the board of education.”
All 17 areas of concern had been addressed and given a vote of compliance by the division’s auditor, Virtus Group. These areas included such items as designated information systems reviews, physical security of the systems, division office data access, fire preventions and back up service, etc.
The independent review gave SECPSD a score of 95 per cent with 18 “open tickets” still requiring action.
Potential incidents that were examined from the SECPSD environment numbered 910 in the previous year, with 309 being brought to the attention of the division itself.
There was a graphic breakdown of the incidents and investigations in the past year and the current period that indicated that a higher level of incidents and investigations had been addressed with a high success rate.
Toth was thanked for the completeness of the presentation and for providing the information on the technology sectors.
