Northeast Ohio school districts are preparing for any potential cyber attacks or ransomware attempts this school year.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ransomware gangs are now targeting school districts to get at their finances, and sensitive information.
“I mean, you could look at a situation where you can’t have school for some amount of time and so we want to make sure that we’re protected against that from a software perspective,” said Dr. Smialek.“With the amount of information personal information we store about students, including sometimes medical information, the amount of curriculum that we operate from an online perspective, it’s all something we have to keep guard of,” he said.
The email address that fraudulent message came from was one letter off from Evans’ actual email address. “We’re going through two factor identifications and that was never something’s we had to consider in the past. But it’s something we do have to sort of, harden ourselves against that type of attack. This is one example, but we have paid more for cyber insurance as well,” said Dr. Smialek.
Dr. Smialek says these protections aren’t unfunded mandates, but they are necessary, so education and awareness go a long way.
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