Howard University’s Devastating Ransomware Attack Can Teach Other Colleges a Valuable Lesson

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Howard University’s Devastating Ransomware Attack Can Teach Other Colleges a Valuable Lesson
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Howard had to cancel all of its online and hybrid undergrad classes for two days at the start of the semester.

all of its online and hybrid undergraduate classes on Tuesday and Wednesday after a ransomware attack compromised its networks and rendered the school Wi-Fi network unusable. The attack, which came just as universities around the country were gearing up for the start of the fall semester, was a reminder of all the ways that online classes’ benefits—offering schools a way to deal with some less high-tech threats like snowstorms and pandemics—come with a vulnerability to disruption.

, in part because there a lot of different people and visitors need to connect to the network and in part because universities tend to place a premium on open collaboration and access to information. So it’s no surprise that colleges—like so many other institutions including hospitals and local governments—have seenin recent years. Up until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, it was not always the case that these attacks meant a school actually had to shut down classes and disrupt student learning.

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