Bill Brown
Executive Director, Education Technology Services
Cybersecurity Briefing
SCASBO 2017 Spring Conference
Data Breach - It Won’t Happen
IT CAN, IT WILL, IT HAS!
“In 93% of breaches,
attackers take
minutes or less to
compromise
systems.”
Source: 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report
from Verizon
Source: Identity Theft Resource Center
Sleep much?
1,400 attacks at
5:00AM
Cyber attacks happen at all
times of the day and night.
Many times they happen
when skilled cyber analysts
are not available.
Saturday and Sunday
attacks, over 3,000+
Who do you have that can
respond and mitigate an
attack that occurs say on
Sunday morning at 3:00AM?
Attacks in the K12 sector
Trends
Spora: Malware
researchers are keeping
close tabs on a new
ransomware strain
called Spora that offers
victims unique payment
options and comes with
top-notch encryption.
Ransom
ware!
Sources: Palo Alto Unit 42, Trend Micro “Ransomware growth will plateau in 2017, but attack methods and targets will diversify”
What can we do?
• Consider implementing an Information Security
Management System either NIST 800 or ISO:27001
with top-down management support
• Consider providing Identity Theft coverage as a
standard benefit
• Encrypt everything; laptops, flash drives, portable
storage, cell phones, mobile devices, etc.
• Change passwords frequently and use complex
passwords (never the same for different sites)
• Awareness, Awareness, Awareness!!!