IBM Announces Cybersecurity Grants for US Schools
American technology company IBM announced today that it will be making $3m available to US public schools in the form of cybersecurity grants.
Grants in the form of in-kind services will be awarded to six school districts to sponsor "teams of IBMers" from the company’s Service Corps Program who will help schools proactively prepare for cyber-attacks and learn how to mitigate them.
The announcement comes after an IBM-sponsored study revealed that nearly 60% of school staff are unprepared to face cybersecurity threats and more than half said their school would be more secure if it had more money.