Cyberattacks on schools are on the rise. Since 2016, the K12 Security Information Exchange (K12 SIX) has cataloged more than 1,300 publicly disclosed cyber incidents affecting U.S. school districts, with the pace of attacks steadily increasing. And those are just the ones we know about.
High-profile breaches like the Labor Day weekend ransomware attack that shut down schools in the massive Los Angeles Unified School District have heightened awareness of the rising peril.
Faced with an ever-growing onslaught of cyberattacks, many K-12 schools and districts are looking to improve their…