FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) – Governs the privacy of student education records
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) – Applies to institutions dealing with data of EU residents
GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) – Protects the security and confidentiality of consumer information
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and israel rcs data Accountability Act) – Applies to health information in certain contexts
Even if you are the most skilled and experienced IT professional, there is only so much you can do if you lack the technology needed to get the job done. It’s like asking Mario Andretti to win a race, but giving him a car with bicycle wheels on it – ain’t gonna happen.
Today, IT professionals are being tasked with protecting their organization’s IT infrastructure with outdated, maintenance-intensive technologies like virtual private networks (VPNs), which are not equipped to protect against modern threats that today’s sophisticated cyber-criminals can throw at them. Here’s why:
VPNs provide unrestricted access, exposing the entire network to lateral threats
VPNs rely on physical devices that require expensive, ongoing maintenance
VPN hardware represents a single point of failure, potentially causing a total network outage
In fact, research from Malwarebytes’ ransomware specialist, Marcelo Rivero, backs this up – showing that 2023 was the most challenging year on record for ransomware attacks in the education sector, with a 70% surge in attacks.
Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP)
Organizations in virtually every vertical sector are turning away from VPNs and replacing them with software-defined perimeters (SDP), finding that they can provide superior protection against today’s threats. Not only that, they are usually much more affordable and deliver a much greater ROI. At a high level, here’s how.