For the school chief information officer (CIO), safeguarding students and facilities is as much a part of the job description as keeping the data networks running and the servers protected from hackers. This article describes how two districts, Miami-Dade County Public Schools and Taos Municipal Schools, secured their surveillance systems. The Miami-Dade County Public Schools piloted a number of similar products before trying Phoenix IVS at Miami Northwestern Senior High School. Meanwhile, the Taos Municipal Schools purchased 100 cameras from Axis Communications through CDW-G.