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Harris Federation disables students' emails following ransomware attack
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Students at London-based Harris Federation schools have been cut off from their email accounts after the trust became the latest educational institution to fall victim to a ransomware attack.
Commenting on the Harris Federation ransomware attack, Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of security company ImmuniWeb said that, “unlike large universities, which can afford spending considerable budgets on cybersecurity, primary schools often struggle to get budgets even for the very foundational security controls, let alone advance cyber defense solutions”.
“Worse, such victims commonly have no choice but to pay the ransom from modest school funds, leaving no money for other activities,” he added.
Kolochenko urged the UK government to "urgently intervene with cyber training, financial and technical support in the UK educational sector”.
“For example, when buying security software, a volume-discount for all schools in the UK could be huge and make even premium security products affordable. Importantly, cyber police units are also deprived of sufficient funding proportional to surging and sophisticated cybercrime.
"Law enforcement agencies require undelayed financial support to attract new professionals, align forensic capacities with modern cyber threats and perform educational support and awareness among future victims.” Read Full Article
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