A joint Cybersecurity Advisory released by the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center warns that Vice Society threat actors are disproportionately targeting the education sector as recently as this month.
IT practitioners in the education sector report that vendors' access to and handling of sensitive data is often unmonitored.
United Educators, a member-owned insurance and risk management provider for education institutions, has partnered with suicide prevention nonprofit The Jed Foundation to offer a premium credit to schools that successfully complete a JED program aimed at supporting students’ mental health and well-being.
Indiana University's Research & Education Networks Information Sharing & Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) has announced a partnership with cybersecurity company Fortinet focused on sharing threat information and enhancing higher education and research cybersecurity efforts nationwide.
The key to better cybersecurity and risk management: looking toward the future to develop a security and privacy strategy that will enable organizations to thrive even in hostile environments. To inform cybersecurity leaders' strategic planning, Gartner offered eight predictions for 2022-2023.
A new alert issued by the FBI warns higher education institutions that cybersecurity agents have identified U.S. college and university credentials are being advertised for sale on “dark web” criminal marketplaces and on publicly accessible internet forums.
Data breaches resulting from ransomware attacks jumped by 13% last year — equal to the last five years’ increase combined — and are impacting more education organizations than ever, according to the recently released Verizon Business 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report.
Across K-12 schools and higher education, student mental health is vying with COVID-19 safety measures as the top concern for the 2022–2023 school year.
The University of Kentucky recently announced plans to deploy a new video management system from Salient Systems.
As part of its commitment to train 30 million people globally in tech skills by 2030, IBM has partnered with six historically Black colleges and universities and HBCU systems to establish Cybersecurity Leadership Centers that will work to build a diverse cyber workforce in the United States.