--- title: Keeper Security Issues Cyber Guidance for Education IT Teams description: Keeper Security is urging schools, colleges and universities to shore up cybersecurity defenses before the new academic year, citing rising risks from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/keeper-security-issues-cyber-guidance-for-education-it-teams-tgak6ozud twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Keeper Security Issues Cyber Guidance for Education IT Teams | daily.dev og:description: Keeper Security is urging schools, colleges and universities to shore up cybersecurity defenses before the new academic year, citing rising risks from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/keeper-security-issues-cyber-guidance-for-education-it-teams-tgak6ozud og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TGaK6oZUd.png og:image:alt: Keeper Security Issues Cyber Guidance for Education IT Teams og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Keeper Security Issues Cyber Guidance for Education IT Teams **[IT Security Guru](https://daily.dev/sources/itsecurityguru)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Keeper Security is urging schools, colleges and universities to shore up cybersecurity defenses before the new academic year, citing rising risks from AI-generated phishing, deepfake impersonation, and poorly managed non-human identities such as service accounts, API keys, machine certificates, and AI agents. Company research found only 14% of schools mandate security awareness training, 41% of institutions reported AI-generated phishing attempts, and just 26% of education leaders feel confident recognising AI-enabled threats despite 52% citing deepfakes as a major concern. Recommendations include enforcing MFA, deploying password management, auditing privileged access, inventorying non-human identities, and establishing credential rotation policies, with Keeper positioning its zero-trust platform and KeeperPAM product as solutions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of schools require security awareness training for staff and students? Only 14% of schools mandate security awareness training, according to research from Keeper Security. This low adoption rate is cited as a factor compounding education institutions' vulnerability to phishing, credential theft, and ransomware attacks, especially during the high-risk period of new account and device provisioning at the start of an academic year. _Security teams tracking awareness training gaps can follow identity security research on daily.dev._ ### What are non-human identities and why are they a security risk in schools? Non-human identities (NHIs) include service accounts syncing student information systems, API keys connecting EdTech apps, machine certificates for connected equipment, cloud identities for automated workloads, and increasingly AI agents used for admissions or grading. They pose a risk because their credentials are often overlooked, with service account passwords left unchanged and unused API tokens remaining active for long periods. _Teams auditing machine identities and credential sprawl can track this topic on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI Threats Are Evolving Fast. Your Employees Are Still the Last Line of Defense.](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-threats-are-evolving-fast-your-employees-are-still-the-last-line-of-defense--3gmbsp2gi) · Arctic Wolf · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Agentic AI already hinting at cybersecurity’s pending identity crisis](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-already-hinting-at-cybersecurity-s-pending-identity-crisis-yoyx4gca8) · CSO Online · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Third-Party Breaches Teach Schools a Costly Lesson in Vendor Risk](https://daily.dev/posts/third-party-breaches-teach-schools-a-costly-lesson-in-vendor-risk-n0fw9gvqr) · Dark Reading · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [T.H.E. 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