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What Cybersecurity Defense Looks Like for School Districts

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Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2024-07-02

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Jennifer Lawinski, Contributing Writer

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An interview with the Woodland Hills School District technology director discusses a past cyberattack that encrypted backups and locked the district out of systems, highlights that schools are attractive targets due to limited cybersecurity staffing and budgets, and describes mitigations implemented such as two-factor authentication and removal of local admin rights to reduce future risk.

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