Education Sectors
Essential Reading
Cybersecurity for Primary Schools
Primary schools hold some of the most sensitive data in the UK education sector — safeguarding records, SEN assessments, child protection files — on minimal IT budgets with no dedicated security resource.
Cybersecurity for Secondary Schools
Secondary schools hold exam predicted grades, SEN files, pastoral records, and UCAS data for thousands of students — high-value targets for ransomware groups and data thieves.
Cybersecurity for Universities
JISC: UK universities face nation-state IP theft, ransomware, and supply chain attacks — with research data, international student records, and financial systems all at risk.
Cybersecurity for Further Education Colleges
FE colleges process ESFA funding data, apprenticeship records, and employer information — high-value targets for ransomware disruption during critical ESFA reporting windows.
Cybersecurity for Multi-Academy Trusts
Harris Federation 2021: one ransomware attack disabled 50 schools simultaneously through shared infrastructure — the defining risk of multi-academy trust centralised IT.