Cybersecurity

At least 33 data breaches have been disclosed so far, affecting more than 17.5 million people 200 organizations, many of them colleges, universities and related organizations.

As Tennessee and Georgia reel from their latest cybersecurity incidents, a new report surveying chief information security officers in education is sounding the alarm.

As the implementations of AI continue to stun university officials, here are some of the most prominent facets of higher education being both positively and negatively affected by the game-changing technology.

If your college or university is in Wyoming, you might be safe—or at least a little safer—from education cyberattacks that have compromised 32 million records over the last two decades.

Dakota State University's recent partnership with the NSA and a $90 million funding boost aims to upgrade the school's longstanding tradition of placing graduates in cybersecurity jobs to forge South Dakota as the next "cyber state" defending national security.

The U.S. joined Australia, India and Japan in the Quad Cyber Challenge, a resource-sharing initiative to raise attention around cyber threats against education and government institutions. Education is a key focus of the initiative, as it is now the single-most targeted industry for cyberattacks.