While education may be a sector in which collaboration and information sharing is commonplace, improving the security posture of the sector as a whole still needs work. A report by the HEPI education think tank and Jisc found that 100% of the universities they penetration tested could be compromised within just two hours.
“In the sector there's a long way to go,” says Hill, “Nobody has really taken it as seriously as it should have been up until very recently.”