As schools become more dependent on digital platforms for instruction, grading, student services, and family communication, resilience depends not only on preventing attacks, but on how quickly leaders can restore trusted data, recover essential services, and keep disruptions from cascading across the school community.
Microsoft has shut down EvilTokens, a cybercrime service that used AI to help attackers break into e-mail accounts, study their victims, and build convincing financial scams.
A vendor coalition built on an Okta-developed blueprint is proposing a shared architecture for discovering, governing, monitoring, and containing enterprise AI agents.
In an active social engineering campaign, cyber attackers are impersonating IT help desks and using fake passkey setup requests to compromise employee identities and gain access to enterprise cloud data.
OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Astra, its most capable broadly deployed model and the first system the company says has reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.
As threat actors adopt more targeted and convincing tactics, education leaders need practical ways to reduce risk without undermining the open, connected environments their institutions depend on.
Cybersecurity companies Rubrik and CrowdStrike have announced an expanded identity-security integration designed to move compromised identity environments from threat detection through clean recovery with less manual intervention.
Carahsoft has created a new community for K-12 schools and districts designed to help education leaders navigate AI adoption and cyber readiness.
Cloud Security Alliance's 2026 Top Threats report ranks identity as the leading cloud security concern, followed by two new AI-related risks.
Research released around the recent Black Hat USA 2026 conference demonstrates that artificial intelligence is increasing the speed and scale of cybersecurity activity without replacing the attack methods defenders already face.