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Both firms have built comprehensive security suites around these competencies, to include capabilities such as access management and security information and event management (SIEM), among others.

Generally speaking, Core Security and Rapid7's offerings revolve around two core competencies: pentesting and vulnerability assessment/management. Pentesting allows firms to discover and exploit existing vulnerabilities for the purposes of identifying at-risk routes, failing information security policy controls, and previously unknown security flaws. Organizations taking a vigilant stance against cyber attackers will often institute regular pentesting routines to test the security of their systems, applications, and infrastructures/environments. Core Security and Rapid7 are two such enterprise security suites let's see how they stack up in this comparison. Others began as penetration testing (pentesting) tools-or have built their offerings around pen testing-and similarly expanded their solutions to include other security mechanisms like endpoint protection and anomaly detection. For example, some solutions started out as intrusion detection and protection systems (IDPS) and gradually added on vulnerability detection and security information and event management (SIEM). It is time to work together, to support one another, and as John Hattie says, вЂњKnow Thy Impact,вЂќ and an impact is what we must provide each of our students!Д¬hris Marino is a Teacher Leader in the Greece Central School District.Despite espousing a common, layered approach to security these days, most enterprise security suites have taken markedly divergent paths to essentially arrive at the same location. It is clear to me that because of the higher level of thinking being required that we now have a skillful young adult who is not only college and career ready, but college and career bound! The content was now making sense and applying the learning to real life situations was finally becoming clear for this student. This student started in a new school and found the Common Core aligned curriculum to be more rigorous and engaging. He was having a difficult time at connecting his school work to his life. We had not yet begun to implement the Common Core standards and he was bored. Even so, the student made a decision a few years ago to leave school and move to another part of the state because the work was not challenging.

Finding a place to eat and sleep was this studentвЂ™s first priority. This high school student was forced to grow up quickly. I recently heard from a former student of mine.

#CORE IMPACT PROFESSIONAL PROFESSIONAL#

I feel the NYS Reform Agenda is now providing school districts across the state the opportunity to make professional development more useful and substantial for our practice.

There have been many times when I left professional development, closed my binder and put it up on a shelf to never look at it again. It takes time for me to understand and make the decision of whether to support new initiatives. Teachers often become comfortable (I know I certainly did) doing things that are familiar. I am noticing that students are focusing on learning targets that provide for a deeper understanding of mathematics, and are using evidence in text to support their thinking when asked a question or provided with an opportunity to respond to text.Д¬hange can be frightening. Teachers are now providing their students with opportunities for deeper thinking across all content areas. One of the best parts about being a Teacher Leader is when I am able to visit classrooms and see my colleagues in action. These new standards allow for teachers to provide more challenging learning opportunities. When we focus in on the standards it is apparent that they were designed to provide more opportunities for our students to be well prepared to enter the world beyond graduation. This can only happen if we have a common set of high standards that we hold our students to, as well as each other. What we need to ensure is that teachers feel supported and are provided with appropriate professional development that not only supports the work, but will also improve teacher performance and promote professional discussions through collaborative teacher evaluation models. Ask any educator and they will agree that the ultimate goal of our work is to raise student achievement. I know that lately I have been doing just that. Through my work as a teacher and teacher leader I have noticed that many are lumping Common Core Standards, Assessment, and Teacher Evaluation into one bucket. I recently came to the realization that I have become caught up in a misconception that seems to be sweeping the country regarding the Common Core Standards.

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