According to Education Week K-12 attacks made up 74 percent of all cyberattacks against educational institutions last year. Schools are attractive targets because they hold significant personal data, manage real money, and operate with limited IT staff and budgets. The response most districts are implementing involves training, awareness, and better email hygiene — all necessary and all insufficient on their own.
Training staff to pause before clicking does not change where the data lives. Rewarding vigilance does not change who can reach it. The strategies in this article are the right first steps. The architecture question — where data actually sits and who actually controls it — is the step that follows.