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White House Announces Efforts to Strengthen K-12 Schools’ Cybersecurity

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Dissent

Joseph J. Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes:

In a 2019 post about increasing cyber risks in K-12 schools, we cited a report, “The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2018 Year in Review,” that contained sobering information about cybersecurity in local school districts across the country. According to that report, in 2018, there were 122 publicly-disclosed cybersecurity incidents affecting school districts across 38 states. Not much has changed. A more recent article looking at ransomware activity in 2023 reports there being 120 attacks against school districts thus far in the year.

Yesterday, the Biden administration announced “new actions and private commitments to bolster the nation’s cyber defense at schools.”

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