Overview
Educational leaders and IT and cyber professionals have faced significant challenges over the last several years. The complexities of shifting between in-person, virtual, and hybrid schooling have been met with an increasingly complicated and evolving cyber threat landscape where schools have become primary targets of cyber threat actors.
Top Security Concerns and Solutions
It’s critical to ensure students, staff, parents, employees, and all their data stay safe.
This requires real-time cybersecurity operations that help education organizations monitor, detect, and respond to threats 24x7x365 – not just during school hours. For most institutions, this isn’t something that can be easily managed in-house.
CIS offers many solutions that can help.
Data-Rich Environments and Wide Attack Surfaces
- Improve Your Cyber Defenses with Help from the MS-ISAC®
- Monitor Your Network for Malicious Activity with Albert Network Monitoring and Management
- Gain Real-Time Visibility into Your Endpoints with CIS Endpoint Security Services (ESS)
- Filter False Positives Out of Your Threat Reviews with Managed Security Services (MSS)
- Audit Your Network and Manage Your Vulnerabilities
Outdated Technology
- Streamline Your Implementation of CIS Security Best Practices with CIS SecureSuite®
- Monitor Your Network for Malicious Activity with Albert Network Monitoring and Management
- Gain Real-Time Visibility into Your Endpoints with CIS Endpoint Security Services (ESS)
- Proactively Block Requests to Known Malicious Domains with MDBR+
- Audit Your Network and Manage Your Vulnerabilities
Highly Targeted by Cyber Threat Actors
- Streamline Your Implementation of CIS Security Best Practices with CIS SecureSuite®
- Monitor Your Network for Malicious Activity with Albert Network Monitoring and Management
- Gain Real-Time Visibility into Your Endpoints with CIS Endpoint Security Services (ESS)
- Proactively Block Requests to Known Malicious Domains with MDBR+
- Filter False Positives Out of Your Threat Reviews with Managed Security Services (MSS)
- Subject Your Defenses to a Simulated Cyber Attack with Penetration Testing
- Audit Your Network and Manage Your Vulnerabilities
Lack of Funding and Resources
Cybersecurity Talent Shortage and Lack of Security Awareness
- Improve Your Cyber Defenses with Help from the MS-ISAC®
- Monitor Your Network for Malicious Activity with Albert Network Monitoring and Management
- Gain Real-Time Visibility into Your Endpoints with CIS Endpoint Security Services (ESS)
- Proactively Block Requests to Known Malicious Domains with MDBR+
- Filter False Positives Out of Your Threat Reviews with Managed Security Services (MSS)
- Subject Your Defenses to a Simulated Cyber Attack with Penetration Testing
- Strengthen Your Defenses Against Common Cyber Threats with the CIS Controls®
Compliance with Evolving Regulations
Top 5 K-12 Security Concerns
81% of K-12 respondents to the 2022 NCSR said they struggle with a lack of sufficient funding.
74% of K-12 organizations purchased a separate or umbrella cyber insurance policy.
43% of the Top 10 Malware attacks affecting K-12 schools involved Qakbot or CoinMiner.
35% of K-12 web activity blocked by the MDBR service consisted of some form of malware.
52% of non-malware threat activity leveraged AsyncRAT against K-12 entities.
