Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting higher education institutions. Ransomware attacks in the sector, for instance, were up 70 percent in 2023, according to a report from Malwarebytes. And a Sophos survey suggests that the average recovery cost can top $1 million per incident.
In recent years, as cyberattacks have become more nuanced, the firewall technology that colleges and universities use to prevent them has also evolved.
While schools may have once relied primarily on hardware servers that inspected incoming and outgoing network traffic, subsequent next-generation firewalls introduced intrusion prevention, sandboxing and other capabilities.
Today’s Firewall as a Service solutions offer similarly advanced security features via the cloud.
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