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Paying the ransom
35% of the attacked educational organisations paid the ransom with on average US$112 435. While the report also shows that only 68% of the data was restored for the ones that paid. In other words, that is also one of the conclusions of the report; paying the ransom should never be an option, for an educational organisation.
The survey is based on 499 respondents working with cybersecurity in educational organisations around the world. And it includes comparisons of respondents from other fields like healthcare, retail, and government. In total 5400 responded to the survey.
Cybersecurity in Education – the cost and solutions
The total bill of a ransomware attack in the education field, considering downtime, people time, device cost, ransom paid, and more, was, on average, US$2.73 million. This is the highest across all fields surveyed. To avoid or at least decrease the impact of a ransom attack the following recommendations are put forward:
- Assume that you will be hit
- Make backups
- Deploy layered protection
- Combine human experts and anti-ransomware
- Never pay the ransom
- Have an antimalware recovery plan
Read the full report The State of Ransomware in Education 2021 here
From B-InteraQtive Publishing – available as hardcover and ebook
The focus is set on eLearning, but not in the traditional meaning of the word since the e now stands for experience not electronic. As the old fight between digital advocates and traditionalists has lost its meaning in a human-centered approach to UX design.
In addition to all this in order to improve the visionary impact, some of Leonardo da Vinci’s eternal design ideas are presented in the book, ending in sixteen design thinking codes by the master to guide your work.
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