This past Labor Day Weekend, the second largest school district in the country — Los Angeles Unified — was hit by a ransomware attack. While media reports were drawing attention to this incident, many educational and cybersecurity professionals already know such attacks are happening.
That’s because cybercriminals have ramped up their attacks against school districts and educational institutions since the transition to remote and hybrid learning. These attackers have been targeting the typically weaker cybersecurity of educational organizations to steal valuable student, employee and institutional information.
Watch our 15-minute on-demand webinar, where we’re joined by Eva Velasquez, President and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center and one of the nation’s experts in identity theft. She shares the lessons learned from the past year of cyberthreats that target educational institutions and explain:
Catch the replay this insightful webinar.