Overview

September 7

Sophos has released The State of Ransomware in Education 2023, an insightful report based on a survey of 3,000 frontline IT professionals – 400 from the education sector – across 14 countries. The report documents the reality of ransomware in K-12 and higher education: attack vectors are growing, as is the financial and operational burden of ransomware.

Join education cybersecurity experts to unpack findings from the report and discover what they mean for your education community during a live webinar on September 7, 2023, at 11 AM PT/2 PM ET.

You’ll learn the latest developments in attacks, including:

Which organizations experienced the highest rate of attack
The average recovery cost in time and dollars
The root causes of attacks

Speakers

Kristin Del Rosso

Field CTO, Public Sector, Sophos

Kristin Del Rosso is the Field CTO, Public Sector for Sophos, with a background in threat intelligence and incident response. With a range of corporate experience, she has successfully launched and grown multi-million dollar security offerings, as well as focused on hands on malware reverse engineering, malicious actor tracking, vulnerability research, and OSINT investigations. She enjoys threat hunting and learning about new forms of security research, and in her spare time can be found gardening and working with startups.

Lydia Payne-Johnson — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Lydia Payne-Johnson is a dynamic, multi-talented executive with more than 40 years’ experience in compliance, cybersecurity risk, data governance, and consumer marketing. She is passionate about helping women adopt strategies that will drive them to embrace their true capacity for self-love and acceptance in order to find their voice in the workplace. Lydia is a published subject matter expert, noted industry panelist, speaker and has been a mentor with the Executive Women’s Forum.

Webinar

Unpacking the 2023 State of Ransomware in Education Report