While it is well known that schools have long been targeted by cybercriminals, COVID-19 has expanded the traditional cyber threat landscape most K-12 school districts will face going through the Fall of 2020 and into the Spring of 2021.
With millions of children now learning from home at least on a part-time basis, they are typically connecting to their lessons using one of four devices: a Chromebook, a Windows laptop, an Apple MacBook, or an Apple iPad.
As students slowly begin to return to classrooms and reconnect to school networks, one of the many problems schools will face is making sure student devices have up-to-date security patches and operating systems.
