RANSOMWARE INCREASINGL Y TARGETS K-12 SCHOOLS. ARE YOU READY?RANSOMWARE INCREASINGLY TARGETS K-12 SCHOOLS. ARE YOU READY? CYBERATTACKS AGAINST K-12 SCHOOLS ARE ON THE RISE. IN PARTICULAR, A SURGE IN RANSOMWARE TARGETING K-12 ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES IS VIOLATING STUDENT AND STAFF PRIVACY, SHUTTING DOWN SCHOOL SYSTEMS, AND COSTING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. When COVID-19 ran rampant in 2020, it compounded cybersecurity issues for K-12 school systems. Schools had to deal with out-of-date computers and old technologies; that wasn’t new. But online learning opened new attack routes into already-challenged networks. And those problems aren’t going away. School systems have plenty of IT security issues to worry about. Malware outbreaks, DDoS attacks, and

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