{"id":1357,"date":"2022-08-09T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zayo1.burbledev.com\/?post_type=resources&p=1357"},"modified":"2024-05-10T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:24:10","slug":"is-your-school-district-prepared-for-a-cyber-attack-how-zayo-can-help","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/resources\/is-your-school-district-prepared-for-a-cyber-attack-how-zayo-can-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your School District Prepared for a Cyber Attack? How Zayo Can Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With students and staff preparing to head back to school, administrators must also prepare to tackle the current cybersecurity crisis. School cybersecurity is vulnerable as ongoing IT talent shortages and network attacks against educational institutions continue. And with\u00a030% of the current cyber workforce planning to change professions in the future<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0school districts experiencing a sharp increase of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks<\/a>\u00a0in the past two years, this crisis shows no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Makes Schools Appealing Targets for Cyber Attacks?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In today\u2019s modern learning environments, operational and instructional systems depend on connectivity to access online learning portals, create lesson plans, track and report attendance and grading, and power their payroll and HR systems. One cyber attack can render all those functions inoperable, bring operations to a standstill, and wreak financial havoc on a school district. Cyber attacks can potentially cause school districts to experience a total system lockdown, resulting in lost data, a network that doesn\u2019t work, and severely-disrupted learning environments because students and teachers can\u2019t access their digital learning tools and resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educational institutions also sit on a wealth of valuable information that makes them a prime target for data breaches. They have students\u2019 full names, Social Security numbers, birthdates, and addresses. Armed with this data, hackers can sell students\u2019 personal information on the dark web or open lines of credit in a student\u2019s name without their knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another factor to consider is that even students themselves can be the perpetrator, especially concerning DDoS attacks. DDoS attacks are more inexpensive and easy to purchase than many people realize. A student could simply order a DDoS attack online to disrupt their district\u2019s network activity for hours and take their learning environments offline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With only\u00a014% of school districts describing themselves as \u201cvery prepared\u201d to deal with a cyber attack<\/a>, it\u2019s evident that schools need to improve how they handle cybersecurity issues that arise. Educational institutions must have a cybersecurity service in place to defend against possible attacks and data breaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Zayo is Providing Cybersecurity Services to the Education Sector<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At Zayo,\u00a0we connect our customers to what\u2019s next<\/a>\u00a0by providing a future-ready network and connectivity solutions tailored to customer needs. But we also connect customers to what\u2019s next through continual enhancements to our products and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u00a0recently acquired Education Networks of America (ENA)<\/a>, a leader in providing managed network connectivity, communications and cybersecurity services to K-12 school districts, in order to enhance the depth and breadth of the products and services we deliver to schools and libraries across the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, we\u2019re uniquely positioned to provide education sector customers with high-quality managed services and exceptional customer care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cybersecurity Services School Districts Need<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By combining ENA\u2019s innovative technology solutions and services with Zayo\u2019s leading, nationwide fiber network, ENA by Zayo provides school districts with vital cybersecurity resources, including:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Unified Threat Management<\/strong>
With\u00a0unified threat management<\/a>, schools gain critical visibility and control of their network with a co-management portal. By merging security and network functions, security infrastructure is simplified, making it easier to spot possible threats and take action quickly. Unified threat management can also continuously update threat prevention intelligence, helping networks stay protected.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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DDoS Mitigation<\/strong>
DDoS mitigation<\/a>\u00a0solutions proactively scan and analyze a network for attacks. Once our solution detects an attack, it reroutes traffic to a scrubbing center, removes the malicious packets and leaves all desired traffic intact, protecting customers\u2019 Internet connection.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Hosted Firewall<\/strong>
A\u00a0hosted firewall<\/a>\u00a0blocks malicious traffic and attacks before Internet access is disrupted. To ensure continued protection against attacks, hosted firewall features multiple layers of failover architecture within hardened facilities.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cyber attacks can potentially cause school districts to experience a total system lockdown. Read our comprehensive and responsive solutions at Zayo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1358,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"5739,3129,7595,11936,12886,3922","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","resource-post-excerpt":"Cyber attacks can potentially cause school districts to experience a total system lockdown. Read our comprehensive and responsive solutions at Zayo.","footnotes":""},"resource-topics":[150],"displayed":[],"resources-categories":[44],"industry":[22],"services-amp-solutions":[87,33,34],"class_list":["post-1357","resources","type-resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource-topics-cybersecurity","resources-categories-blog","industry-education","services-amp-solutions-ddos-protection","services-amp-solutions-network-connectivity","services-amp-solutions-solutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resources"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"resource-topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-topics?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"displayed","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/displayed?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"resources-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources-categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"services-amp-solutions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zayoustrans.burbledev.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services-amp-solutions?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}