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AI: The only defence against rising cyberattacks in the education sector?

Scott Brooks, Technical Strategist at IT Support company Cheeky Munkey, provides expert insight on how the rise of AI is impacting cyberattacks on schools, and why AI might be the only way for schools and universities to defend themselves against more advanced attacks… The UK’s education sector is significantly more vulnerable to cyberattacks than education […]

Research highlights cyber threat to schools

There have been 301 attacks against UK and US schools so far in 2019, compared to 124 in 2018 and 218 in 2017.  That’s according to Barracuda analysis of data compiled by the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center (K-12 CRC), which has been tracking reported attacks against U.S. schools since 2016. This only accounts for the reported cases, however, […]