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School ransomware attacks are threatening student safety School district leaders don’t always connect school ransomware and student safety, but it’s an important topic in today’s K-12 cybersecurity landscape. The state of K-12 ransomware is changing. C… Continue reading School Ransomware And Student Safety
K-12 cybersecurity report identifies a new class of school cyber incidents Over the past few weeks, we’ve talked about a number of topics that are covered in the third annual report, State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2020 Year in Review, published by Doug L… Continue reading The State of 2020 K-12 Cyber Safety and Security
K-12 Cybersecurity report finds that 75% of data breaches in 2020 were related to district vendors and partners School vendor security is a hot topic in districts across the country, and for good reason, based on the statistics in the latest report on … Continue reading The State of School Vendor Security and Compliance
K-12 ransomware attacks are increasing in severity – now is the time to get protected Doug Levin, National Director of the K12 Security Information Exchange (K12 SIX), has dedicated his career to technology and education. This work produced The K-12 Cy… Continue reading The State of K-12 Ransomware
Third-party apps are an often overlooked and misunderstood factor in ransomware protection K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center’s third annual The State of K-12 Cybersecurity 2020 Year in Review reported a total of 49 publicly disclosed ransomware incide… Continue reading 6 Tips For Controlling Third-Party App Ransomware Threats In K-12
RansomCloud: it’s new, it’s here now, and it’s coming to a server near you Google cloud ransomware attacks are contributing to K-12 schools earning a dubious bit of notoriety. Healthcare entities used to be the single biggest target of ransomware. Late… Continue reading Google Cloud Ransomware
Do you think Google and Microsoft are protecting your data in the cloud? It’s time to think again It’s no secret that schools are a top target for ransomware attacks. The number and severity of attacks on school districts increased in the past year. Du… Continue reading Ransomware In The Cloud: K12’s Misunderstood Threat Vector
School ransomware attacks are on the rise—learn how to avoid becoming a victim School ransomware attacks have been haunting district IT teams for years. One of the more recent attacks hit the public school system in Yazoo County, Mississippi. They paid… Continue reading 10 Ways to Diminish Your Vulnerability to School Ransomware Attacks
Mitigating insider DLP risk factors is critical as districts use more cloud applications Data loss prevention (DLP) should be at the top of every district IT team’s summer projects list. Data loss comes in many forms. Some are the result of an outsider… Continue reading 4 Ways to Mitigate Insider DLP Risk
Manage these risk indicators to protect students, faculty, and staff against insider DLP risks District IT teams need to know how to spot insider DLP risk indicators to ensure that their data loss prevention (DLP) strategies are working—whether the thr… Continue reading 6 Insider DLP Risk Indicators