Alongside Nation State Actor and espionage attacks are Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. The intention of these attacks is to infiltrate a weak network, flood this network, target a host, and cause disruption to impact productivity and, in essence, stop or crash systems. The attack is hard to contain, as it is often maid from multiple sources. The motives behind such an attack can range from a personal vendetta against a specific organisation, the means to slow down an organisation to cost them time and money, or to work as a distraction to allow for other infiltrations to be made.

The larger the attack surface, the more likely the investment of time and resources into an attack will be fruitful. In the UK alone, there are over 2.3 million students in education, and just under half a million staff in higher education. With such a large attack surface, realistically there has to be a weak link somewhere.

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