Built by someone who's actually been in your seat.

HackFirstAid for Education is part of a five-property family covering individuals, small business, municipalities, K-12 districts, and boards of trustees. Each property is written for one audience in their own vocabulary — superintendents and district IT directors, not corporate CISOs.

The founder, Travis Barlow, spent two and a half decades responding to incidents inside the public sector, founded the Atlantic Security Conference (AtlSecCon), and now focuses on making the first hour after an incident a calm one for the people responsible for it.

We deliberately scope tight. Higher education runs differently enough to warrant a different product — we don't pretend to cover it. Operational technology, building automation, and SCADA in schools is covered by partners with deeper specialization. Cyberbullying without a cyber-security component is handled better by counselors than by us.

What we do cover, we cover end-to-end: free triage, twelve K-12-specific playbooks, vendor escalation paths, a US + Canada regulatory grid, procurement paperwork, board-meeting briefings, and a direct line during an incident.