Some K-12 public schools are racing to improve protection against the threat of online attacks. But lax cybersecurity means thousands of others are vulnerable to ransomware gangs that can steal confidential data and disrupt operations.
So many classrooms depend on cloud-hosted teaching aids that I doubt this would be feasible. They’re far past the old days of passing around printouts, everything is online now.
This problem isn’t limited to schools. State IT infrastructure is a shambles pretty much everywhere, and there’s no relief in sight. Awful salaries, impossibly low budgets, and a total lack of planning or strategy for decades now, and they’re getting exactly what they’ve paid for.
So many classrooms depend on cloud-hosted teaching aids that I doubt this would be feasible. They’re far past the old days of passing around printouts, everything is online now.
This problem isn’t limited to schools. State IT infrastructure is a shambles pretty much everywhere, and there’s no relief in sight. Awful salaries, impossibly low budgets, and a total lack of planning or strategy for decades now, and they’re getting exactly what they’ve paid for.