Industries Penetration Testing for the Education Sector
Out of 17 reported-on industries, the education sector ranked as the least secure. To meet regulatory compliance requirements, combat large attack surfaces, and keep both staff and student data secure, proactive cybersecurity isn’t just an option–it is a non-negotiable.
While much of it is attributed to human error, device standardization (which is common across all industries, but significantly more difficult to achieve in an educational setting due to their wide number of part-time, remote, and interned workers) is rarely enforced, meaning that educational device management policies and authentication protocols for connected devices have room for improvement.
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While much of it is attributed to human error, device standardization (which is common across all industries, but significantly more difficult to achieve in an educational setting due to their wide number of part-time, remote, and interned workers) is rarely enforced, meaning that educational device management policies and authentication protocols for connected devices have room for improvement.
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33%
Only 33% of education sector staff feel that they have sufficient cybersecurity measures in place.
The education sector reportedly made up 13% of all security breaches during the first half of 2017, which resulted in 32 million records being compromised by threat actors
30%
There has been a 30% quarter-over-quarter increase of attacks against K - 12 since the end of 2022.
Global ransomware attacks against both K - 12 and higher education were estimated to cost over $53 billion in downtime between 2018 and 2023
66%
66% of school districts do not have full-time cybersecurity staff.
Lack of full-time security has correlated to approximately 74% of ransomware attacks on colleges and universities being successful (in direct comparison to 68% that were successful in the business sector, 61% in healthcare, and 57% in the financial sector)
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