Thoughts on School comp sys breaches in USA SN 1012,1013

[dusanmal]

What surprised me the most in the recent school networks breaches in the USA is all the data available there... Why is that data on School systems? As in the old security rule that you don't run all, just crucial crucial services on your machines. Solving this issue may also solve needless education spending. School systems should have education content and grades and schedules. Nothing more. Health data?!? That should sit in Doctors offices and Insurance Co systems. School wants to know - ask Doctors case by case
, none of school business to keep it.
As I am immigrant from another type of education system, here is what I grew up to be properly educated and end with multiple advanced degrees: both our elementary and high schools run on double shifts, school capable of supporting 1000 kids per session had 2000 pupils. Staff? On both levels schools I attended with about 2000 pupils each had: Principal, Vice Principal, 3 secretaries, 4 cleaning ladies who also served as school nurses and one maintainance man. Only extra staff member in HS was additional Counselor. All other employees were teaching. Nobody kept any records other than education content, grades and schedules... There was nobody to do so and nobody was needed to do so.

 

[AlanD]

School systems should have education content and grades and schedules. Nothing more. Health data?!? That should sit in Doctors offices and Insurance Co systems. School wants to know - ask Doctors case by case
, none of school business to keep it.

With modern Western societies that seem to visit a lawyer more often that they eat, having some health data immediately on hand may be a requirement for schools, e.g. this pupil may have eplieptic fits, or has an allergy to nuts. Having to locate and call a doctor's office when a child is suffering would take too long.

 

[SeanBZA]

While true, most comes from nver actually scrubbing stale data, and keeping it well past the use y date, often with poor to none existent security. After all a school will often have an IT policy set by a district, but in reality the passwords are written down next to the computer, because changing passwords is hard, and having more than one user is hard as well, what with needing to train teachers how to use a login page. thus the username is Jenny, password is Talia, despite the fact jenny retired 2 decades ago, and is in a high care facility, but nobody has changed the system since them.

As add on Cloudflare could simply use that IP block, and, totally randomly, migrate La Lga streams onto it, blocking the legite streams, and citing that they were looking for matches to the La Liga stream, and blocking every single one, as it was not possible to look up and verify every owner, so they blocked them all as preventative measure.