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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.
IBM Introduces $3 Million in Cybersecurity Grants for Public Schools in United States as Attacks on Education Grow
New IBM study shows nearly 60% of school staff are unprepared for cybersecurity threats - lack of training, awareness, budget and virtual learning identified as major issues
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ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced in-kind grants valued at $3 million to help strengthen cybersecurity in schools. These grants will be awarded to six school districts in the United States to sponsor teams of IBMers to help them proactively prepare for and respond to cyberattacks. Services will be delivered by teams deployed via IBM s Service Corps Program. The grant is being announced following a December alert from the FBI warning that nearly 60% of reported ransomware incidents between August and September 2020 involved K-12 schools, a 29% jump from the months prior.