According to a recent survey by Cantium Business Solutions, over three quarters (78%) of UK headteachers believe that their school faces an increased risk of being exposed to a cyber incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Universities, schools and other education institutions often hold sensitive, personally identifiable information which makes them attractive to cyber criminals who are looking to make money from withholding this information for ransom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, despite this the survey, which covered the views of just over 500 UK head teachers, school IT professionals and teaching staff, reported that 37% of respondents do not rank cyber security as a priority. Yet two thirds of those surveyed claimed to have suffered a cyber attack<\/a> in the last 18 months – and only 35% \u2018felt strongly\u2019 that they were well prepared to protect their school against malicious activity in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NEBRC is a police-led organisation set up to support organisations from online crime and fraud. NEBRC Detective Inspector, Steve Leach comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCyber security should be a high priority on any school\u2019s agenda. \u201cA holistic business approach is essential: from governing boards and senior leaders, through to staff and admin teams, providers and suppliers, everyone has a part to play in helping to ensure robust and necessary cyber management.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The NEBRC works to offer insights, support and guidance on how best to prevent cyber attacks. By following a few simple steps, you can immediately improve cyber security at little or no cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visit and share with your colleagues the NEBRC webinar for the education sector here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information on how to stay safe online visit our website<\/a> where we offer a range of resources, including a FREE core membership package<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to a recent survey by Cantium Business Solutions, over three quarters (78%) of UK headteachers believe that their school faces an increased risk of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crcnetwork-cfkr6.projectbeta.co.uk\/northeastcrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n