What the education sector’s cyber resilience challenge means for students, staff and families in 2026
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Research Report: What the education sector’s cyber resilience challenge means for students, staff and families in 2026
Education institutions are managing a harder security problem than their confidence figures suggest.
Large volumes of sensitive data, constrained budgets, mixed infrastructure and a user base that spans staff, students and families all create complexity that is difficult to manage from the centre. The priority has to be visibility, knowing what is connected, how it is protected and what happens when something goes wrong.
Incidents are universal across the education sector
Every education respondent in this research reported experiencing at least one cyber incident in the past 24 months, the highest incident rate of any sector in the sample.
Based on the research findings, five areas stand out as priorities for education IT leaders looking to improve cyber resilience over the next two years.
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