Security News > 2020 > May > Educational organizations use cloud apps to share sensitive data outside of IT control

Many educational organizations are at risk of data security incidents during the current period of working from home and virtual learning, a Netwrix report reveals.

According to the survey, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of educational organizations had weak data security controls.

In particular, 54% of IT professionals in the educational sector confessed that employees put data at risk by sharing it via cloud apps outside of IT knowledge.

Other notable findings 82% of educational organizations don't track data sharing at all or do it manually, and 50% of them suffered a data breach due to unauthorized data sharing last year.

"To ensure these institutions can secure their student and employee data, IT professionals need to get back to basics. First, they need to understand what sensitive data they have, and classify it by its level of sensitivity and value to the organization."

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