Cybersecurity risks for higher learning institutions are continuously growing and colleges and universities still represent a significant target sector for malicious cyber activity. Reports from campuses in Colorado, New Jersey, and New York City are examples of how higher education is one of the most targeted industries with a significant number of users and vast amounts of data to protect.
If successful, ransomware attacks have proven to be extremely lucrative. Security leaders within higher education need strategies that help mitigate these common attacks quickly to get ahead of threat actors today – as well as for the strategies these attackers use in the future. |