Only one-third of school districts have a full-time employee dedicated to cybersecurity

Cybersecurity topped ed tech leaders’s concerns for a sixth straight year in the Consortium for School Networking’s 10th annual State of Ed Tech national survey.

Despite ed tech leaders’ persistent sounding of the alarm over cybersecurity, only one-third of districts surveyed said they have a full-time employee focused on network security, CoSN found.

Some 12% of districts said they do not allocate any funds for cyber defense, according to CoSN’s survey. Two-thirds of ed tech leaders said they don’t believe their district has enough resources to handle cybersecurity issues.