Why education IT teams must protect both human and machine identities
THE SO WHAT
Education networks now have as many machine identities—bots, agents, services—as students and staff, and attackers are already exploiting that gap. School IT should extend IAM and MFA policies to non-human accounts this semester, not after the first AI-assisted breach.
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