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As a former high school history teacher, I used to love teaching lessons that used technology. It allowed the class not only to learn facts, but also to practice their critical thinking skills — evaluating the reliability of a source, analyzing a variety of primary and secondary documents, and corroborating information in order to develop independent views on what is important and true.
However, incorporating technology was not as simple as logging on to a computer. The process started with reserving the computer cart about a week in advance. On the day of the lesson, I would pick up the cart from the office and distribute the computers to my students. Inevitably, there were some computers that weren’t charged, so they had to go back in the cart and students had to shuffle around to get access to chargers.
If the computer required a password, I needed to go around the classroom and enter the password on each computer, because teachers weren’t allowed to share the credentials with students. There was also the looming, and realistic, possibility that the wifi would go out, meaning I was always prepared with back-up paper documents.
I share this with you to illustrate the challenging logistics that educators often face to get a classroom of 25 K-12 students online. Considering that you only have 45 minutes with those students, the situation takes on more urgency. And you might not realize that there were few, if any, security measures in place to ensure that students were not risking their own data and privacy.
Since joining Duo Security, I’ve realized that security should not be overlooked, regardless of how many people are impacted or their self-perceived level of importance. This is especially true with the rise in ransomware and data breaches in 2020, specifically among K-12 schools.
In our new world of virtual learning and cloud applications, it’s not enough to hand out logins and passwords, considering that 81% of breaches come from stolen credentials. However, as a teacher, if you had asked me to incorporate another step into logging onto the computer, I would have said it can’t be done.
If schools want to successfully implement a security solution, it must be simple, fa
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