Protecting your home Wi-Fi network is important because it makes it much harder for intruders to sneak into our network and cause problems. If protecting your Wi-Fi network is critical and essential, imagine what is necessary and important which is the security and protection of the network of the educational center.

All education centers work with sensitive information from their students and also from their relatives. We’re not just talking about personal data such as first and last names or address, it is also common to find other important information such as identity documents (ID), bank detailstelephone numbers and other information of a personal nature, which may include particularly sensitive medical data.

Unfortunately still There is a misconception that school Wi-Fi networks are not an important target for cybercriminals, and therefore it is not necessary to give them the same priority when establishing protective and security measures. This is a very serious mistake and in this article we will tell you why as we go through five reasons why it is essential to protect your education center Wi-Fi network.

1.-Meaning of data

The data handled in the learning center is very important and as we said earlier They are particularly sensitive. If we add to this that in many cases educational centers cooperate data on minors I think it is more clearly understood why it is important to protect the Wi-Fi network of these centers.

A well organized and targeted attack could compromise student and family databases and enable information theft sensitive that could end up revealing not only students’ personal data, but also banking data used to pay school fees and other services, any health data of these and their relatives, as well as personal history that could endanger or harm some students.

2.-Reputation and image of the center

Every education center has picture to hold. This image is influenced by many aspects, such as the quality of the teaching staff, both at the pedagogical and human level, but also its background, services, technological offer and the protection it offers to students.

Today, it is essential that every educational center offers a Wi-Fi network so that its students and teaching staff can use the Internet as a tool for learning and collaboration, but we must remember that it must be properly protected, because in case it is not and there will be an attack , the reputation and image of the center will be greatly damaged.

The entity of the attack may be so large that the center will eventually never recover, and if it does her driving and her future could end up hanging in the balance. On the other hand, an education center that has a properly secured network can appear to parents and students as a safe institution that He cares for the welfare of both.

3.-Stoppage and interruption

An attack on a Wi-Fi network that is not properly protected can result in serious damage to the infrastructure of the educational center, and if this happens service is likely to be interrupted for a considerable period of timesomething that will ultimately make it impossible for teachers to do their jobs in a normal way and will introduce strong restrictions and limitations.

Depending on the severity of the attack, it is also possible that many facilities and equipment in the learning center may be affected, which in extreme cases it can end up causing huge chaos, especially if the attack hits the databases where grades, questionnaires, exams and bank details of students, parents and the educational center itself are collected. These could be partially or completely changed and a review and correction process would be required.

4.-Domino effect if networks are not properly isolated and controlled

Student and teacher networks must be isolated, and the reasons are quite obvious. Without this separation, without this isolation, an attack or breach affecting the student network could spread to the teachers’ and learning center’s network and create a kind of domino effect that could ultimately have devastating consequences.

If this isolation of teacher and student networks occurs, it is possible to cut this domino effect and stop the fall in these situations. Successful attack on student network it could not be extended to teachers or the rest of the staff from the education center because they would both be isolated and the same thing would happen again.

On the other hand, Adequately control applications and websites that can work in any network is essential to strengthen security. In this way, we will not only prevent students from accessing content inappropriate for their age and inappropriate for educational centers, but also block sites and applications that could threaten the security of the center’s network.

5.-Economic costs: prevention is better than treatment

Let’s put together everything we’ve said so far and think for a moment huge economic costs that the attack could affect the educational center, compromising the sensitive data of students, their families and their professions, in addition to forcing them to interrupt the service and the proper functioning of their devices and Wi-Fi networks for several days.

Now add restoration costs, image damage centers and all the costs that might result from that domino effect we hinted at. It is not necessary for us to start doing specific numbers to realize that the damage and economic costs associated with not protecting the Wi-Fi network of the education center can be very high. Is it worth the risk? The clear answer is a clear no.

How to protect the learning center network

For raise awareness about the importance of protecting the networks of any educational center and to help teachers, administrators and parents better understand all the keys around this topic, we have published an interesting free eBook where we address this issue and where we also share a number of keys that will help us establish the necessary protective measures.

In this eBook you will also find useful information, including guides and tutorials, on how to improve performance and how to set auto-disconnect times to reduce electricity consumption and save on your electricity bill. If you want to expand your knowledge and learn new things, this eBook is also of interest to you. Don’t miss it, it’s completely free.