K-12 schools and school districts manage student records, staff personally identifiable information, and increasingly cloud-based learning platforms under FERPA privacy obligations, CIPA internet safety requirements, and state-level student data privacy laws — while operating with limited cybersecurity budgets and high staff turnover that make access control hygiene challenging. Ransomware targeting K-12 institutions has surged dramatically, with attackers recognising that school districts often lack the incident response capability to resist ransom demands for restoring student data and administrative systems.
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