Education

The total number of breaches recorded by the 2016 ITRC Breach Report hit 489 last week, an increase of 19.8% over last year’s figures. Year-over-year, breaches in the Education sector are up 70 percent over 2015 figures.

Learn how Goodwill deters theft, ensures network compliance, and monitors their device inventory with Absolute.

Almost every school district in the US now has laptop computers, tablets and other mobile devices, with digital learning an integral part of the curriculum. With devices now woven into the core of our current teaching methods and curriculum, the threat of a personal or school computer walking out the door in the hands of thieves can have a huge impact.

Absolute today launched its Chromebook extension to the Absolute Mobile Theft Management (MTM) solution for Education customers. Absolute Mobile Theft Management (MTM) combines effective security technology and on-site student safety programs so you can track, locate, and recover your endpoints while ensuring the safety of your students. Paired with Absolute DDS (for Windows, Apple and Android) and you can effectively protect all of your devices in a single cloud-based...

The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) recently released its 4th Annual K-12 IT Leadership Survey, whose goal it is to understand how technology is being used in schools in order to engage IT leaders to create more engaging learning environments through the effective use of technology.