As this blog makes painfully clear, the education sector struggles with data security and lags way behind other sectors, in my opinion. Now a new report indicates another area of security where they’re lagging. Brian Prince reports:
The education industry – which includes education companies, schools and colleges – brought up the rear in a new study from BitSight examining the connection between botnets and data breaches. According to BitSight, fewer than 23 percent earned an ‘A’ grade, while more than 33 percent earned an ‘F’.
The report examined the ratings and risk vectors for 6,273 companies between March 2014 and March 2015. The grades are based on the organization’s effectiveness across a variety of risk vectors, and are not based on other performers in the same industry or of the same size. The risk vectors include observed compromises on a company’s network as well as the steps a company has taken to prevent attacks.
Read more on Security Week.