Is your educational institution a soft target for hackers? Who does your web hosting? Are there any vulnerabilities in your network infrastructure that could make it easy for someone to infiltrate? Who has access to your network, and how is that access being managed? If you don’t know the answers to these questions, you could potentially be compromising your educational institution’s sensitive data. Recently, education institutions not focused on cybersecurity have become easy targets for hackers.
Educational institutions need to adopt strict protocols to combat cybersecurity breaches. Here is how to begin a security protocol.
Understand your infrastructure and the network access points.
It is important to understand the network, its components and the people who have access to parts of the infrastructure. Get help from an IT professional to learn about possible security vulnerabilities in the network and to understand the best ways to manage risks posed by them.