Cyber Security Threats in Online Schooling or Colleging
Cyber Security Threats in Online Schooling and Colleging With all the talk about washing hands, students need to also think about how to practise good cyber hygiene using encryption, VPNs, software updates and password management. Software that takes over a device can expose the user to spyware, malware or data exfiltration that can compromise health and personal information, or academic research and intellectual property in a competitive field. With more teachers and students online, particularly if they’re doing it from less controlled environments outside of the school, the attack surface of the school community is increased, Schools and Universities tend to be quite careful about doing intrusion detection, and putting up fairly sophisticated access controls. Threat from Zoom Video meetings Video-teleconferencing platform Zoom has security and privacy issues, prompting Indian Government and later even New York’s Department of Education to ban its use as a digital classroom,...