Welcome Back to School! It’s Phishing Season

Are you aware that over 90% of all cybersecurity breaches begin with the click of an email message?

Did you know that K-12 school districts are now the number one target for cyber gangs? 

Did you hear about the recent cybersecurity incident where a Connecticut school district lost $6 million?

Prior to the pandemic, our Barrington 220 Tech Team conducted building-by-building training sessions designed to educate staff members on what “red flags” to look for prior to opening an email message or clicking on any links within an opened email message. Each year since the initial training, staff learn about cybersecurity as part of our annual required training.

Beginning in September 2023, we will begin sending various email messages to staff members that are designed to look like these “red flag” messages. It is our hope you simply send these messages to the trash or mark them as “Phishing” within the Gmail system.

If you do happen to open one of these messages, or click on an attachment within the message, you may be redirected to a webpage that plainly provides some helpful information in regard to cybersecurity and email messages.

Our goal with this program is to inform and prevent—to help inform staff members regarding cybersecurity issues and to help prevent a security breach here at Barrington 220.