Thursday, 21 January 2021, 9:37 am
When students returned to school following the
nationwide COVID-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown, their schools
were targeted by more than 2,000 online threats per minute,
according to a new report released today by Crown company
Network for Learning (N4L).
N4L’s first “data and
insights” report reviews online safety and student use of
its school-based internet services from April 15 to July 3,
2020 (Term 2). During this time, which includes 22 days of
remote learning away from the “Managed Network”, the
company blocked more than 120 million cyber security threats
and 90 unsafe websites featuring harmful digital
content.
Many organisations within New Zealand and