{"id":2811,"date":"2024-03-28T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umbrella-staging.marketops.umbrella.com\/?p=70275"},"modified":"2024-03-28T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T08:00:00","slug":"go-big-go-chrome-strengthen-cybersecurity-in-education-the-enterprise-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/go-big-go-chrome-strengthen-cybersecurity-in-education-the-enterprise-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Big & Go Chrome: Strengthen Cybersecurity in Education, the Enterprise & Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speed and performance might make you think of motorcycles with big shiny chrome parts, but that\u2019s not what this post is about (apologies). Instead, it\u2019s about the speed and performance of a secure Chromebook user experience.<\/p>\n

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Today, we\u2019re going to talk about the steps that educational institutions from preschool to graduate school need to take to improve online safety for students and staff alike and about how information security teams in the education space can partner with Cisco to get better security for the Chromebooks that many of those students and staff use for their studies and their work. We\u2019ll also discuss how enterprise IT security teams can partner with Cisco to ensure a secure and optimized Chromebook experience for their workforces, wherever they are working on the web and in the cloud.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look first at the education space.<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity challenges in education<\/h2>\n

Cyberattacks put the safety and security of teachers and school administrators at risk, in addition to the privacy of students from kindergarten- to college-aged. According to Cisco Talos,<\/a> education and manufacturing were tied for the most targeted verticals for ransomware attacks in Q4 2023, together accounting for nearly 50 percent of the total number of incident response engagements, closely followed by healthcare and public administration.<\/p>\n

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With recent world events and evolving technologies reshaping and expanding the structure of how and where teachers teach and students learn \u2014 whether in hybrid, remote, or in-person \u2014 the situation has created a broader attack surface with potentially more vulnerability points for criminals to exploit. So, whether the attack targets are human, hardware or who knows what else, educational institutions need cybersecurity technology and processes in place to protect themselves from these risks.<\/p>\n

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the evolution of how learning happens, educational institutions at all levels were embracing cloud operating systems and applications for their efficiency and productivity advantages, and this will continue. But the cybersecurity needs between institutions varies and, therefore, so do the policies and their enforcement. Ideally, the policies and their enforcement have a minimally obvious impact when it comes to the speed and performance of whatever devices students and staff use to get their work done securely.<\/p>\n

Key recommendations from CISO on how to manage security risk in education<\/h2>\n
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A key finding published in the January 2023 U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) report titled Protecting our Future: Partnering to Safeguard K-12 Organizations from Cybersecurity Threats<\/a> is that \u201ccybersecurity risk management must be elevated as a top priority for administrators, superintendents, and other leaders at every K\u201312 institution. Leaders must take creative approaches to securing necessary resources, including leveraging available grant programs, working with technology providers to benefit from products that are secure by design and default, and urgently reducing the security burden by migrating to secure cloud environments and trusted managed services.\u201d<\/p>\n

The need for effective cybersecurity risk management continues into higher education. Colleges and universities have excessively large attack surfaces due to students and staff being connected to web-facing assets, such as domains and sub-domains linking to sensitive internal resources, to online assets that have replaced the tangible textbooks of even just a few years ago, and to cloud applications used to produce and deliver lectures and homework. As noted in Educause Review\u2019s Three Cybersecurity Facts Campus Leaders Should Know<\/a>:<\/p>\n