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In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, K-12 school districts are harnessing the power of technology to transform education. The widespread adoption of Chromebooks has revolutionized the learning process, providing students with tools for collaboration, research and creativity. However, along with these advancements come unprecedented cybersecurity challenges that demand a comprehensive strategy.

In the first part of this series, we provided a brief overview of the Windows Restart Manager. In this blog post, we examine how these mechanisms can be exploited by adversaries and review how the CrowdStrike Falcon platform can detect and prevent these attacks.

Mom's Meals is a food service company that helps provide meals to people who are in need of help. This meal service organization works to deliver food to the homes of individuals who need help with food. These individuals could be at risk for identity theft and other serious problems in the future. Learn about the specifics of this breach below and understand the full risk for data loss because of the attack.

Data breaches are becoming more and more of a problem worldwide, and this week, it's especially obvious that they're causing trouble for serious companies. Major medical organizations, schools, and financial companies were all hit by breaches this week. Mom's Meals, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, and Prospect Medical Holdings are all medical companies impacted by breaches this week. TMX Finance and the University of Minnesota are the other targets we cover in the recap below.

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have encountered increasing burdens over the last few years, from challenging economic conditions to a dramatically evolving cyber threat landscape. Today, 43% of cyber attacks are targeted at SMEs, and only 14% of targeted SMEs were prepared to handle such attacks. An astonishing 75% of those SMEs attacked could result in permanent closure if unable to recover data.

Organizations are tasked with the continuous challenge of having to keep up with advancing cyber threats and must change their security strategies for them to remain secure. Zero Trust Security is a response that demands identity validation from all users, devices, and networks, thus eliminating implicit trust altogether.

Disasters rarely strike with advanced notice. That’s especially true in the business world, where there’s no such thing as a business meteorologist to forecast potential threats that may beset a company’s personnel or assets. That’s where a Business Continuity Plan comes into play.