A report shows that most of attacks are perpetrated by students on their own institutions.
EfficientIP, a network protection company, whose Global DNS Threat Research (in its third year running), surveying 1,000 large businesses across nine countries, found that the threats facing the Education sector are even more damaging than suggested in this Government study.
The e Global DNS Threat Report said that the average cost of DNS-based attacks in the Education sector is $690,000 per attack in the past 12 months.
The Education sector faced an average of seven attacks in the past twelve months. Cyber attacks cost the Education sector an average of $4 830 000.
More than 73 percent of institutions took more than three days to apply a patch to a critical vulnerability.
The study found 41 percent of respondents in the Education sector were vulnerable to DNS-based malware. More than any of the other nine sectors surveyed. In comparison DDoS attacks in the Education sector scored a quite low 18 percent.
Bloody students, eh?
