Educational institutions store immense amounts of highly sensitive information, like contact information, academic records, Social Security numbers, financial information, and health records, which makes them lucrative targets for hackers.
Making up more than six per cent of the gross world product, the global education sector has been growing at a 4.5 per cent compound annual growth rate and is forecast to be worth $10 trillion by 2030. As the education sector continues to grow, so does the rate of digitisation in schools. More and more schools are implementing digital solutions to track student performance, schedule classes, monitor assignments, and perform other tasks.
As educational institutions worldwide continue to collect increasing amounts of student information, the responsibility to secure this data also exponentially increases. They carry a cyberattack risk, which in recent years seem to be more targeted against those in the higher education sector.
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