Schools are facing greater cybersecurity threats than ever before

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New research from Keeper Security highlights a worrying gap in the perception and reality of cybersecurity practices and teachings in schools across the world.

It found parents are overwhelmingly (74%) confident in their child’s school’s cybersecurity measures, but despite this, many schools are falling short of providing robust security education, with only 14% providing mandatory security awareness training, and 13% offering it optionally.

As a new generation of children inevitably enter online spaces, ensuring their information is safe whilst doing so should be something that we drill into them, but only 12% of students have access to dedicated cybersecurity resources.

Read more at TechRadar.

Chong-Hao Fu
Chong-Hao Fu
Chong-Hao Fu is a former school leader-turned-CEO. Heading the non-profit Leading Educators, Chong-Hao works to maximize the influence of our nation’s educators and accelerate instructional growth for students at the margins in some of the fastest-improving school systems in the country.

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