Boulder, Colo. March 4, 2019 — In a first-of-its-kind report, The State of Cybersecurity: 2018 Year In Review found that K-12 schools suffered at least 122 cybersecurity incidents in 2018, nearly 60 percent of which resulted in personal data being compromised.
The K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center has been tracking K-12 cybersecurity incidents since 2016 using its interactive K-12 Cyber Incident Map. The deep analysis of 2018 cyber incident data found that:
“The goal of policymakers, technologists and school leaders must be to reduce and better manage the cybersecurity risks facing increasingly technologically dependent schools. Make no mistake: keeping K-12 schools ‘cyber secure’ is a wicked problem — one that is sure to get worse until we take meaningful steps to address it,” says Douglas Levin, president of EdTech Strategies and founder of The K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center.
ManagedMethods, the leading cloud application security provider for K-12 school districts in the United States, co-sponsored this important report to help educate the public about the risks of using education technology.
“As parents of school-aged children, we have a personal interest and a moral obligation to help protect schools from cybersecurity incidents,” explains David Waugh, VP of sales and marketing at ManagedMethods. “That is why ManagedMethods is on a mission to make cloud security easy and affordable for this vulnerable and underserved market segment.”
ManagedMethods helps hundreds of K-12 schools secure cloud applications, such as Google for Education and Microsoft Office 365. Information technology staff gain critical visibility and control over malicious and accidental data breach activity.
About The K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center
The K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center is the home of the K-12 Cyber Incident Map. It has been instrumental in drawing attention to the emerging cybersecurity threats facing U.S. K-12 public schools and districts.
The K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center is devoted solely to issues of school cybersecurity and privacy issues. It is maintained as a free, independent resource for the K-12 community by EdTech Strategies LLC.