{"id":280693,"date":"2026-06-24T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/powered-by-ai-cyber-threats-can-even-reach-second-graders\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:35:09","slug":"powered-by-ai-cyber-threats-can-even-reach-second-graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/powered-by-ai-cyber-threats-can-even-reach-second-graders\/","title":{"rendered":"Powered by AI, Cyber Threats Can Even Reach Second Graders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/powered-by-ai-cyber-threats-can-even-reach-second-graders\">Powered by AI, Cyber Threats Can Even Reach Second Graders<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/powered-by-ai-cyber-threats-can-even-reach-second-graders\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/powered-by-ai-cyber-threats-can-even-reach-second-graders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 13:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 As if the job of cybersecurity officers was not made difficult enough in today\u2019s world of threats ginned up by AI, try introducing risk-avoidance tools like multifactor authentication to second graders using Chromebooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not going to happen,\u201d Hailie Roark, information security manager at Clackamas Education Service District (CESD) in Clackamas County, Ore., said during a cybersecurity panel Tuesday at the annual meeting of Link Oregon at Portland State University.<\/p>\n<p>CESD offers specialized instruction to children ages 3-21 with complex needs, helping the eldest find employment; and offers teacher, student and technology support to area districts. Link Oregon is a nonprofit member organization providing middle-mile connectivity and other resources to K-12 districts, universities, cities and other public-sector organizations.<\/p>\n<p><span data-bsp-pv=\"4f8e492c-6f2f-390e-bc61-f176d3a37ab9\"\/><span data-bsp-pv=\"0000019e-f97f-dfaa-a3ff-ffff3d0c0000\"\/><br \/>K-12 school districts are certainly not immune to cyber attacks, but because of their many technology users, cybersecurity officials have had to come up with more creative approaches to controlling risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings like MFA, one of my favorite rants is, \u2018how do you provide and enforce MFA for second graders?\u2019\u201d Roark said, using the shorthand for multifactor authentication, the go-to security protocol organizations use to control the security of the many endpoint devices in circulation, including laptops.<\/p>\n<p>School districts of all sizes now issue Chromebooks to students from elementary to high school. Each of these devices is a possible entry point for a cybercriminal. A challenge for school districts \u2014 which is unique to an organization with so many young people in possession of tech \u2014 is the job of securing these devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you do? Do you give them a little fob? Do they bring it back and forth from home every day? Do they take care of it? Does it come back?\u201d Roark said, offering scenarios which clearly stretched anyone\u2019s idea of&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/powered-by-ai-cyber-threats-can-even-reach-second-graders\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powered by AI, Cyber Threats Can Even Reach Second Graders https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/security\/powered-by-ai-cyber-threats-can-even-reach-second-graders Publish Date: 2026-06-24 13:31:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/45e8aaf\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2767x1345+0+576\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F6c%2F09%2F80b09c1b4aa0addf23a4e41869e6%2Flink-oregon-cybersecurity-panel.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,57],"class_list":["post-280693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280697,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280693\/revisions\/280697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}