The case is being brought under charges of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which is more often used against organized crime.
Education has recently been ranked 5th as an industry targeted for cyberattacks, according to Nord, a security firm. And, cyber breaches there extend far beyond school walls. Students are directly affected by breaches, which not only can disrupt classes while school systems are fixed, but their data and that of their parents is both very valuable to criminals and easily at risk. This can include family financial data and children’s ID, behavioral and academic data.
Let’s look past the trees to some forests today, Dear Reader. Here’s news that digital experience analytics vendor Contentsquare is buying product analytics platform Heap. Closer integration of product marketing and consumer marketing has been a trend for some time.
Amperity has launched Lakehouse CDP, which delivers CDP functions within “lakehouse” data stores including Snowflake and Databricks. Amperity tools for data modeling, data quality, identity resolution, generative AI, segmentation, and performance measurement will send all results to a company’s own lakehouse rather than a separate Amperity-managed database. Modules can be used independently but the real benefit here is that Amperity is one of the few “composable” CDP vendors who offer a complete set of pre-integrated CDP functions.