K-12 schools can transform students into cybersecurity leaders by focusing on security awareness training to prevent social engineering and cyberattacks.

The "Teacher and School Concerns and Actions on Elementary School Children Digital Safety" from North Carolina State University identified five digital safety concerns for K-12 students.

Ransomware targets colleges and universities at alarming rates. With the shutdown of Lincoln College, campus IT security leaders need to harden their attack surfaces.

The Threat Intelligence Report from Avertium analyzed Black Kite cybersecurity findings to rank the top five cybersecurity threats facing the education sector, including ransomware, data breaches and more.

K-12 school administrators and cybersecurity leaders outlined their top four challenges to securing their educational institutions in the "Creating a Common Culture of Action Around Cybersecurity: 2021 National K-12 Education Cybersecurity Report" from iboss.

This Data Privacy Day, Security connected with two leaders in the K-12 school cybersecurity field to uncover the challenges of data privacy in the education sector and industry strategies to maintain the security of student and staff information.

The Albuquerque Public Schools student information system has been compromised in a cyberattack, prompting the closure of schools serving over 85,000 students in New Mexico.

A report from ManagedMethods and administered by the EdWeek Research Center, "What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: New Survey Identifies Gaps in K-12 Cloud Security," details cybersecurity knowledge gaps in the K-12 sector.

School budgets have been set for the 2021/2022 school year, policies and procedures have been updated, staffing levels have been established, and security solutions have been deployed into this dynamic environment. Here, we consider adjustments that can be made to deployed controls so that children and school staff remain safe in both hybrid and remote learning environments.

The security challenges involved with remote student access, coupled with a need for a user-friendly solution that allows students, faculty and staff to utilize resources when off campus, mean that school and university IT departments must consider a number of elements when evaluating the security of their remote access solutions.