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Whether you are a school, college, university, or a training center – cybersecurity needs to be one of the topics high on the agenda during boardroom meetings for these educational institutes.
Education institutions need to make cybersecurity a priority. Despite the sector facing major challenges such as a lack of staffing and a lack of funding and resources, cyberattacks are no less frequent or less severe in education. In fact, they seem to be gaining ground in prevalence year-on-year as instances of breaches in schools and higher education are widely reported.
We continuously hear about universities and other educational faculty networks being compromised with ransomware, examination papers and tests being leaked, student information system personal data leak etc. What is worrying is the data we are talking about are related to minors and that is really worrying. Education institutes need to practice cybersecurity controls and measure like any critical organization does whilst protecting their internal staff and personnel and the students and visitors that utilize their resources.
Education institutions need to make cybersecurity a priority. Despite the sector facing major challenges such as a lack of staffing and a lack of funding and resources, cyberattacks are no less frequent or less severe in education. In fact, they seem to be gaining ground in prevalence year-on-year as instances of breaches in schools and higher education are widely reported.
We continuously hear about universities and other educational faculty networks being compromised with ransomware, examination papers and tests being leaked, student information system personal data leak etc. What is worrying is the data we are talking about are related to minors and that is really worrying. Education institutes need to practice cybersecurity controls and measure like any critical organization does whilst protecting their internal staff and personnel and the students and visitors that utilize their resources.
Common Challenges faced by Educational Institutes
- Lack of resources and budget
- Cultural differences - BYOD and Mobile Device Management
- Ransomware Compromise
- Backup and Recovery Impairment
- Email Security Challenges
- Personal Data Protection Challengers
- Unrestricted and controlled network access
- Controls in Cloud Services
Common Challenges faced by Educational Institutes
- Lack of resources and budget
- Cultural differences - BYOD and Mobile Device Management
- Ransomware Compromise
- Backup and Recovery Impairment
- Email Security Challenges
- Personal Data Protection Challengers
- Unrestricted and controlled network access
- Controls in Cloud Services
Attack Surface
The education sector will always be a prime target to hackers. Mainly because the attack surface is so large. The sheer size of the industry, and with it the potential of great financial gain, data theft and espionage, makes it a prime target for cybercriminals. And anyone, from students to employees, faculty members and third-party providers is a prospective target. Most of the education institutes follow a similar network architecture and as illustrated present a wide attack surface.
- Student access over wireless and wired
- Guest access over wireless and wired
- Faculty Members access over wireless and wired
- High-Speed Internet Access
- Corporate Servers
- Faculty and Educational Servers
- Student Information Management Systems
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Internet of Things
• Building Management System
• Physical Access Control System
• IP-TV and CCTV Systems
• Fire Alarm System
• Public Announcement System - Use of Cloud Services (SaaS) for Remote Classroom, Remote Learning and Smart Blackboard
- Data Storage and Archiving
- High Performance Computing - Labs
How DTS can help the education sector
- Establish cybersecurity policy and guidelines that are aligned towards international security standard
- Establish cybersecurity handbook and guidelines for parents and students
- Security awareness and training program with focus on cyber-bullying
- Develop an advisory council or committee responsible to oversee cyber risks
- Establish corporate cybersecurity controls covering enterprise and student management systems
- Creating a human-centric culture and awareness of cybersecurity amongst staff and faculty members
- Robust data protection and governance framework to take control of personal data protection and regulatory requirements
- Ensure cyber resilience in baked into every new transformation – remote learning, remote classrooms etc.
- Streamlined procurement and supply chain security with third-party risk management
- Establish a zero-trust security framework to reduce the external and internal attack surface across student faculty and staff networks
Attack Surface
The education sector will always be a prime target to hackers. Mainly because the attack surface is so large. The sheer size of the industry, and with it the potential of great financial gain, data theft and espionage, makes it a prime target for cybercriminals. And anyone, from students to employees, faculty members and third-party providers is a prospective target. Most of the education institutes follow a similar network architecture and as illustrated present a wide attack surface.
- Student access over wireless and wired
- Guest access over wireless and wired
- Faculty Members access over wireless and wired
- High-Speed Internet Access
- Corporate Servers
- Faculty and Educational Servers
- Student Information Management Systems
-
Internet of Things
• Building Management System
• Physical Access Control System
• IP-TV and CCTV Systems
• Fire Alarm System
• Public Announcement System - Use of Cloud Services (SaaS) for Remote Classroom, Remote Learning and Smart Blackboard
- Data Storage and Archiving
- High Performance Computing - Labs
How DTS can help the education sector
- Establish cybersecurity policy and guidelines that are aligned towards international security standard
- Establish cybersecurity handbook and guidelines for parents and students
- Security awareness and training program with focus on cyber-bullying
- Develop an advisory council or committee responsible to oversee cyber risks
- Establish corporate cybersecurity controls covering enterprise and student management systems
- Creating a human-centric culture and awareness of cybersecurity amongst staff and faculty members
- Robust data protection and governance framework to take control of personal data protection and regulatory requirements
- Ensure cyber resilience in baked into every new transformation – remote learning, remote classrooms etc.
- Streamlined procurement and supply chain security with third-party risk management
- Establish a zero-trust security framework to reduce the external and internal attack surface across student faculty and staff networks
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Cybersecurity Program and Framework Development
- Develop Cybersecurity Policies, Processes, Procedures
- Institutionalize Cybersecurity Management System
- Establish Robust Cyber Risk Management Practices
- Ensure Cyber Resilience and Disaster Recovery
- Executive Management Support for Cybersecurity
- Establish Data Governance and Protection Controls
- Establish Identity Governance and Access Management
- Enterprise and Cloud Security Architecture Blueprint
- Enterprise and Cloud Security Strategy
- Cybersecurity Controls Reference Architecture
- Cybersecurity Maturity Enhancement
- Human-Centric Cybersecurity Awareness and Training Program
- High-Performance Cybersecurity Metrics
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- Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
- ISMS Compliance and Gap Assessment
- IT Audit and Health Check
- Data Protection and Security Assessment
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Penetration Testing
- Social Engineering
- OSINT and DARKINT Assessment
- Red Teaming
- Blue Teaming
- Purple Teaming
- Ransomware Simulation
- Network Security Architecture Review
- Network and Security Configuration Assessment
- Systems Security Configuration Assessment
- Third-Party Risk Management
- Supply Chain Security Assessment
- Identity Access Management Assessment
- Privileged User Access Management Assessment
- Database Security Assessment
- IaaS and PaaS Cloud Security Assessment – AWS, Azure, OCI
- SaaS Cloud Security Assessment – Salesforce, Informatica
- Social Media Risk Assessment
- CSOC Cyber Threat Monitoring Risk Assessment
- Secure Software Maturity Assessment
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Assessment
- Attack Simulation Assessment
- Incident Response and Digital Forensic
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- Zero Trust and Private Access
- Endpoint and Server Protection
- Data Protection
- Application Security
- Secure Software and DevSecOps
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- Risk and Compliance
- Security Intelligent Operations
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