With 63 percent of schools experiencing malware outbreaks or unauthorized user access at least twice a year, the results of a Panda Security survey indicate that IT security is a resource-heavy, time-consuming effort that schools struggle to manage efficiently.
A new report shows that even in industries that are heavily regulated like healthcare, 14 percent of sites had a serious vulnerability throughout the year.
The cost of a data breach? $214 per compromised record and averaged $7.2 million per data breach event, says the Ponemon's U.S. Cost of a Data Breach report.
Purdue University has been awarded more than $1 million from the National Science Foundation to provide support for students seeking advanced degrees in information security.