Cyber Resilience in Education

Achieving Cyber Resilience in Education

Multi-faceted environments require assessment, detection, and responses on multiple fronts. New cybersecurity strategies offer new hope for educational environments.

ANTICIPATING OUTCOMES. Identifying and prioritizing threats. Managing response. Those are the hallmarks of cyber resilience, yet achieving that desired state brings its own challenges.

This multi-faceted, holistic protection strategy requires a broad mix of technologies and coordination, from always-on risk assessments and authentication to end-user education and compliance. Colleges and universities and K–12 environments generally approach planning and protection similarly, but some distinctions are important, particularly when it comes to tackling the size or scale of risk exposure or gearing cyber education to younger age groups when building a culture of security.

In both educational settings, universities, and K–12 schools are required to safeguard their critical data, minimize disruptions to learning, ensure secure environments, and maintain reputations and compliance standards. Continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) solutions offer security and IT teams in the education sector an ongoing, comprehensive analysis of their environment. This includes evaluating systems, mitigating risks, and identifying and assessing threats.

This guide highlights the essential tools and preparations that should be a part of any K–20 educational cyber resilience strategy, best practices for implementation and adoption of those strategies, and more.