Small Solutions To Manage Cyber Risks

(From Chief Executive) As more and more devices use artificial intelligence and internet connectivity, cyber security challenges are becoming increasingly prevalent in organizations, and risk of these incidents can cost organizations enormously. A recent report from Harvard Business Review noted that organizations are more at risk for a security breach when CFOs and other top organizational leaders fail to properly invest in cyber security. As the report suggests, complying with a standard security framework like NIST or FISMA is often not enough to keep attackers at bay — instead, it's important to view cyber security as a continuous investment. Small solutions to managing this risk include:

• Enact measures to ensure that each member of your executive team knows the basics to protecting sensitive data, including how to identify scam emails. As school leaders make cybersecurity a priority, the rest of your staff will be more likely to follow this crucial example.
• Configuring your email server to help staff identify that an email has originated outside your organization. This information can help them make better judgments about how they should treat the email and how this could impact your schools' day-to-day work.
• Implement procedures for reporting suspicious emails or security concerns to identify which entry points could be used by attackers to get into the network.

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