Council Post: What Cyberthreats Do Higher Education Institutions Face?
Personally identifiable information (including SSNs), payment information and medical records of applicants, students, alumni and faculty are stored and processed by a campus system. That amount of sensitive data is enormous. Taking into account that the average cost of a data record belonging to a university is estimated at $200 (registration required), hacking a university seems lucrative. Besides, intellectual property and cutting-edge research may attract state-sponsored cyberattackers.
