On Sept. 15, South Lyon Community Schools shut down for three days after a network disruption raised security concerns. Phone lines didn’t work; surveillance systems were offline; safety‑protocol systems were down. Although there’s no evidence that private data was accessed, the disruption underscores a serious truth: in today’s digital age, schools are fragile in very public ways.

How does something like this happen? Often, it’s a mix of under‑resourcing, increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and basic vulnerabilities that go unaddressed. Cybersecurity expert, Scott Bailey with N1 Discovery, a metro Detroit-based cybersecurity firm, suggested the incident was not a targeted hack, but an opportunistic exploit of a general network vulnerability. That makes it all the more menacing. Thes

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