Education
We've curated 48 cybersecurity statistics about Education to help you understand how schools and universities are enhancing their defenses against phishing attacks and data breaches in 2025.
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The Highline Public School district has over 2,000 staff members and 17,500 students across 34 schools. All 34 schools were closed due to a ransomware attack.
The median time to click on a malicious link after the email is opened is 21 seconds.
It takes only another 28 seconds to enter the data after clicking a malicious link.
For education institutions with 250-999 employees, the baseline Phish Prone Perecentage (PPP) was 31.2%.
For large educational institutions with more than 1,000 employees the baseline Phish Prone Percentage (PPP) was 31.7%.
The Iranian Mabna Institute conducted intrusions into the computing systems of at least 144 United States universities and 176 universities in 21 other countries in 2023.
Some schools endure over 2,500 attempted cyberattacks a day.
In 2023, there was a staggering 105% increase in known ransomware attacks against K–12 and higher education, surging from 129 attacks in 2022 to 265 in 2023.