Barracuda Survey Reveals Rising Cyber Risks in Education

Barracuda Networks, Inc., the cyber resilience platform leader, via a new international survey unveils the email threats targeting the education sector over the last 12 months and how the prepared institutions are to respond and recover. The findings underscore a critical reality: effective cybersecurity is about more than threat prevention; it is about being able to identify and neutralize incidents before they have a chance to unfold into something more damaging such as ransomware.

Barracuda Research detected 58.8 million phishing emails targeting a sample of 536 educational institutions over a three-month period. That translates into around 1,200 phishing emails hitting each institution every day.

As attackers increasingly use AI to refine phishing tactics, identifying and blocking every malicious email is becoming more difficult for security teams.

Barracuda surveyed 2,000 IT and security leaders in the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific, including 113 working in the education sector. More than three...

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