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Internet has made everything faster and easily accessible for educational institutions thus making them more efficient in their overall operations. The use of internet has also make the institutions vulnerable to cyber attack and theft and as per recent survey educational institutions are 6th most targeted industry and they are also considered as the least secure business sector. A whooping 13% of all data security breached was from education sector. It therefore becomes very critical to make educational institutions secure to safeguard the information of students, parents, staffs and research data so it can not be misused.

The importance of cyber-security in education sector needs to be given due care considering that now online systems are an integral part of institutions big and small everywhere. It is therefore very important to implement proper security for networks and computers to save it from unauthorized people so that the personal information which is a valuable asset of any educational institution remains secure.

A lot of incidents in recent past have come in light related to ransomware that led to financial loss to multiple universities and also incident where students safety was compromised due to CCTV being hacked and footage being Live-streamed. Educational institutions are assumed to be safeguarding their students a lot of whom are minors but with weak Cyber-security in place that is at high risk.

Based on our past experience our cyber security experts have highlighted that the major areas for cyber security threats in educational institutions are phishing, malware, ransomware, spam, social engineering and denial of service attacks. These are used mainly for financial gains by the cyber attackers. Apart from financial gains we have seen that Universities involved in scientific, engineering and medical research need to have a strong cyber security system in place so the research data is not lost or misused.