As cybersecurity risks increase across industries, colleges—which increasingly depend on apps and software for teaching, learning and operations—remain valuable targets for cybercriminals and data exploitation.
For years, cybersecurity experts such as the FBI have been sounding the alarm about the risks surrounding widespread collection of student data and the rapid growth of education technologies. The Federal Communications Commission recently warned that cyberscams are increasingly aimed at college students.
Cyber risks increase with the use of apps by students and faculty as well as the growing amount of data collected daily. Another source of risk: Colleges partner with technology companies and learning management systems to run classroom operations, and those ed tech companies store and share students’ personal information for what schools deem “educational purposes.”
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