$3.56 billion: That's what ransomware attacks cost U.S. schools and colleges–in downtime alone–in 2021. Administrators also faced additional "astronomical recovery costs" to restore computers, recover data, and fortify their systems against future attacks, a new report says.
Seattle Public Schools in the past several weeks has blocked web traffic from Russia, upgraded safety firewall services and hired an additional antivirus company.
Add computer hackers to COVID and increasingly severe weather on the growing list of challenges forcing administrators to more frequently shut schools down.
CrowdStrike's Falcon Complete solution is built to protect schools from cyber attacks. It says there have been zero reported breaches across thousands of customers.
