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Tyler ISD presents cybersecurity update; district reports 3.2/5 assessment and no breaches this year
Summary
District IT leaders reported a cybersecurity assessment score improvement to 3.2 out of 5, blocked tens of millions of spam/phishing emails, completed a secondary data center, and plan investments in real-time threat detection and alerting systems.
Tyler ISD IT leaders told the Board of Trustees that the district’s cybersecurity posture improved this year, with the most recent external assessment scoring the district at 3.2 out of 5, up from 2.8 the prior year.
Keesa Sunde, Tyler ISD’s network security engineer, who the administration identified as the district’s cybersecurity coordinator, told trustees the district “scored a 3.2 out of 5,” and that the vendor who performs assessments across about 250 districts reported Tyler ISD is “one of only 2 or 3 districts” they work with that scored a 3.0…
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