The education sector continues to be a key target for a cyber attack, according to cloud identity security solutions firm ThycoticCentrify.
In the second half of 2020, the Asia Pacific education sector experienced a 21% increase in cyberattacks, compared with just an average 3.5% increase across all other sectors.
Inr esponse, ThycoticCentrify announced that it is working with Australian universities to adopt the federal government’s Essential Eight cyber mitigation strategies.
A new case study demonstrates how one of ThycoticCentrify’s customers, Victoria University, has implemented privileged access management strategies a key part of the Essential Eight to improve its cybersecurity posture.
ThycoticCentrify has a number of other higher education customers in Australia following a similar path, with security initiatives becoming more urgent after high-profile data breaches in the sector. It is estimated that more than 80% of successful data breaches including the cyberattack on the Australian National University revealed in 2019 target privileged accounts.
Privileged access management works by restricting the data access that systems users have to a minimum. It also…
