The education sector has a wealth of very sensitive information traveling through its IT systems with data largely relating to students, teachers, and other members of faculty.
Cybersecurity is a concern for school districts of all sizes, but smaller schools and districts can be particularly vulnerable. When it comes to cyberattacks, hackers don’t care about the size of your school, they only care about how weak your security is. Download this infographic to learn 4 simple strategies that can help defend smaller […]
Without national standards, there is huge variation between what one school and a district in another state may be teaching students at the same level.
Steps students and schools can take to secure student data, which is very attractive to cybercriminals because it often contains unblemished credit reports and perfect Social Security numbers.
The most widespread cyber incidents were ransomware attacks, in which a hacker infiltrates a network and hold it for ransom, along with data breaches of student and staff personal data that included everything from bullying reports to Social Security numbers.
