eBook: How to Combat the Cybersecurity Crisis in Higher Education
The Higher Ed sector knows there’s a crisis afoot. Education CISOs and CIOs are aware that they
are the number one target of hackers globally, with nearly 2,300 attacks per week. Everything
from their decentralized legacy systems to the massive amounts of personal and proprietary
data they protect piques the interest of hackers. After all, if student data, research or network
access is held for ransom, schools WILL pay to get it back. And those ransoms will likely far
exceed the cost of implementing measures to thwart them—the average Higher Ed ransom
is $3.65M. Right now, the industry seems to be playing a game of dare by saying there’s no
money for cybersecurity…until they are hacked and humiliated and have to pay a ransom. It’s
not a smart way to do business and it’s incredibly frustrating for the professionals who fully
understand the risks.
So where do you start? How do you calculate costs and convince leaders to fund a more mature
and modern cybersecurity stance? And how can you do it most cost-effectively? This eBook
answers all of that and more for tech leaders at every phase of cybersecurity maturity.
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