#India's Education Sector: The Biggest Target of Cyber ​​Attacks

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 India's education sector  is the most vulnerable to online attacks and cyber threats, with 

 found in a new survey prior to the United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia and Brazil. A report entitled "Cyber ​​Threats Targeting the Global Education Sector" has been published. Edited by Singapore-based CloudSEK's Threat Investigation and Information Analysis Department. It manages enterprise digital risk through artificial intelligence 

. This shows that  the education sector recorded 20  digital threat alerts worldwide during the first three months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. The reason for this was that the adoption of digital methods in distance learning in Covid Pandemic St. Moa 

 India had strong defenses against cyber attacks by 2025. The global education and training market is expected to reach US $ 7.3 trillion, according to CloudSEK data. Dollar, growth rate  doubled from 2019 to 2025. A significant section of the growth the report reveals is in the edtech sector especially in developing countries This growth in turn has attracted several cyber-criminals. 

 Over 58 per cent of the threats the company studied in Asia and Pacific were found in India or India based educational institutions followed by Indonesia which accounted for 10 per cent of the attacks This included attacks on BYJU`s IIM Kozhikode and Tamil Nadus Directorate of Technical Education." the report said 

 Center claims it foiled Chinese cyber attack on disputed border Apart from India globally the US attracted the highest number of such threats accounting for 86 per cent of threats in North America These include ransomware attacks on prestigious institutions such as Howard University and University of California In addition high risk API vulnerabilities were uncovered in Coursera he report read Among the steps that the company has outlined for institutions to adopt to stop such attacks is the not clicking on suspicious emails and links messages not downloading or installing unverified apps using strong passwords and enabling multi factor authentication (MEA) across all accounts The institutions should block illegitimate IP addresses and deactivate port forwarding using network firewalls They should perform real-time monitoring of the internet to identify and mitigate lowhanging threats such as misconfigured apps exposed data and leaked accesses that are leveraged by cybercriminals to carry out large scale attacks the report read.

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