81,879 attacks per device: SonicWall warns education has become cybersecurity’s new battleground
SonicWall recently released its 2026 Education Protect Brief, a vertical-specific companion to the SonicWall 2026 Cyber Protect Report. The report found that education recorded the highest per-device attack intensity of any tracked vertical in the first half of 2026, with a single VoIP exploitation signature accounting for more than half of all intrusion prevention events across the sector.
Every year, attacks look more sophisticated. AI has made them faster and more difficult to spot. But the fundamental methods have not changed, and in education, the doors are uniquely difficult to close.
University campuses and school districts run networks that are, by function, open: student devices, faculty research systems, public-facing portals, third-party learning platforms, and administrative databases sharing the same infrastructure. Bring your own device (BYOD) isn’t an opt-in security policy for higher education; it’s the fundamental baseline of their network architecture.
“Education has the most exposed attack surface of any...
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