Thursday, March 17, 2022

Cybersecurity should be a concern on your campus–here’s why - Kurt Markley, eCampus News

In a recent survey, some two-thirds of respondents in the education sector revealed that staff don't think of themselves as targets for data theft exploits. Higher education institutions keep getting hacked, despite (or perhaps partly because of) the accumulated and ever-expanding wealth of knowledge and expertise within their walls. K-12 security breaches have multiplied – hitting new records over the past year. To successfully breach schools and institutions, hackers often take advantage of insiders, sometimes even targeting students directly on school issued computers. And this is not a new problem.