When news broke that a ransomware attack would shut down Lincoln College, many reacted with surprise and shock. The questions on almost everyone’s minds were: How could this happen, how could it have been prevented, and, perhaps most importantly, who might be next?
But looking at the data around cybercrime, Lincoln College isn’t an outlier. It’s part of a much broader, disturbing trend in cybercrime that college administrators and leaders ignore at their own peril.