Faced with the sudden disruption of the COVID-19 school closures, a K-12 private school was forced to rapidly transition to a virtual school environment. With staff and students isolated at home, Microsoft Teams became essential for keeping the virtual campus up and running. The school needed to onboard students into a safe and secure virtual school environment, while adhering to strict record-keeping laws.
The rapid virtualization of K12 learning expanded the attack surfaces for schools, students, and staff. But these risks are not just an IT issue. The risks require cross-department cooperation.
We hosted experts from CrowdStrike and Parkways School District in Missouri to discuss how to stop threats from cyberbullying to ransomware attacks.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools were forced to rapidly virtualize their learning environments, believing that they would go back to the office in a few months. As the pandemic persists, school districts have realized that they must be more prepared for fully virtual or hybrid learning environments for some time to come.
This survey was conducted to learn more about how businesses rate their own security and compliance risks in the new digital reality of the workplace wrought by COVID-19 pandemic. In effect, to learn how businesses grade their adaptations to date, what gaps still exist, and how they are planning for the future.
As enterprise organizations become increasingly dependent on digital communication channels for everyday productivity and customer engagement, the need to secure these channels against cyberattacks, data loss, and compliance risks becomes paramount.