Educational Organizations at Risk of Data Security Incidents during COVID-19 Pandemic
Netwrix announced additional findings from its 2020 Data Risk & Security Report. The report reveals that many educational organizations are at risk of data security incidents during the current period of working from home and virtual learning.
According to the survey, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of educational organizations had weak data security controls. In particular, 54 percent of IT professionals in the educational sector confessed that employees put data at risk by sharing it via cloud apps outside of IT knowledge. This is the highest percentage among all verticals surveyed. The move to distance learning increases this risk even more.