Full Text of HJR0108 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, According to The K-12 Cybersecurity Resource | 3 | | Center (Center), there were 122 cataloged publicly-disclosed | 4 | | cybersecurity incidents affecting 199
public K-12 education | 5 | | agencies across 38 states during calendar year 2018; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The Center reports that there is a new | 7 | | publicly-reported incident every three days of
the calendar | 8 | | year; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Primarily, the cyber incidents reported in 2018 | 10 | | were data breaches, including the
unauthorized disclosure of | 11 | | data due to human error, by vendors in partnership with school
| 12 | | districts, by students to modify student records, and by | 13 | | external actors, often for malicious
purposes; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, This increase in cyber threats directed at school | 15 | | districts continued into 2019, including in
Illinois where | 16 | | school districts across the State have been hit by | 17 | | cybersecurity breaches; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, In August 2019, the personal information of 53,000 | 19 | | students and 3,100 educators in
Naperville District 203 and | 20 | | Indian Prairie District 204 was exposed following a data breach | 21 | | in
connection to student assessments; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In September 2019, Rockford Public Schools were | 2 | | without Internet or access to
student records for several days | 3 | | following a ransomware attack; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, The Division of Elementary and Secondary | 5 | | Education for the State of Arkansas
recently created the P-12 | 6 | | Cyber Threat Response Team (Team), a small group of IT
| 7 | | professionals who provide onsite support at no cost to a school | 8 | | district whenever an Arkansas
school district is faced with a | 9 | | cyber threat; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, The Team works to ensure that school districts | 11 | | know they are not alone when faced
with a cyber threat and to | 12 | | increase communication between schools and other interested | 13 | | entities; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, In the face of constant cybersecurity threats, | 15 | | which are only going to increase in future
years as the use of | 16 | | technology and the Internet become ever more prevalent in | 17 | | schools across the
United States, it is imperative that | 18 | | Illinois works to protect school personnel, students, and their
| 19 | | families from unauthorized data breaches and cybersecurity | 20 | | threats; therefore, be it
| 21 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE |
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| 1 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | 2 | | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we urge the Illinois State Board | 3 | | of Education,
by the 2020-2021 school year, to establish a P-12 | 4 | | Cyber Threat Response Team within the State
Board of Education; | 5 | | and be it further | 6 | | RESOLVED, That the P-12 Cyber Threat Response Team shall | 7 | | provide assistance to public schools,
early childhood | 8 | | providers, and special education facilities across the State | 9 | | when faced with a
cybersecurity threat; and be it further
| 10 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 11 | | delivered to the Darren Reisberg, Chair of
the State Board of | 12 | | Education, and Dr. Carmen Ayala, State Superintendent of | 13 | | Education.
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