CoSN2022: 5 Ways Schools Can Prepare for Cybersecurity Insurance Risk Assessments

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The COVID-19 pandemic essentially ended the conversation about whether school districts should embrace one-to-one programs that put a computing device into the hands of every student.
“During COVID, a large number of individual devices were deployed,” says Amy McLaughlin, Cybersecurity Initiative director at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN). “We exited the conversation of, ‘Should we do one-to-one?’ and entered the conversation of, ‘How do we maintain one-to-one?’”
Historically, many school districts have struggled to build device refresh cycles into their operating budgets. Often…

Last month, the College Board, which develops and administers the SAT, announced that the test would move entirely online by 2024. Many states already have an online…