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AU: Schools clueless about IT security, reveals study

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Dissent

Byron Connolly reports:

Almost one in two Australian secondary and tertiary schools do not have an IT security awareness program in place and alarmingly, 53 per cent didn’t know what information was taken during a data breach, according to a study commissioned by Symantec.cloud.

The study asked around 500 teachers and administration staff at 168 private and public secondary and tertiary schools across Australia about their IT security landscape and what precautions they had in place to protect students.

Read more on CIO.

And what would we find here in the U.S. if the same study were run?


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