Contributing Editor: Isaac Galvan, Community Program Director, Cybersecurity and Privacy
"Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy" tackles the philosophical, moral, strategic, and organizational quandaries related to higher education cybersecurity, privacy, and data. This month, Mike answers your questions about integrating security into business relationship management, preventing risk acceptance from becoming risk avoidance, and finding purpose in documentation.
Programs that allow students to participate in cybersecurity activities benefit the students academically and professionally, and they improve institutional defenses against cyberattacks.
"Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy" tackles the philosophical, moral, strategic, and organizational quandaries related to higher education cybersecurity, privacy, and data. This month, Mike answers your questions about research security ownership, the future of CMMC compliance, and surviving vendor breaches.
"Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy" tackles the philosophical, moral, strategic, and organizational quandaries related to higher education cybersecurity, privacy, and data. This month, Mike answers your questions about unnecessary complexity, the myth of perfection, and the danger of documentation without controls.
Artificial intelligence is amplifying cybersecurity risks in higher education by making threats like phishing more effective and vulnerabilities easier to exploit, while increasing pressure on institutions to strengthen security without sacrificing openness, innovation, or the academic mission. This episode examines four key challenges facing cybersecurity leaders.
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Anthropic’s announcement that its AI model Mythos is able to find large numbers of cybersecurity vulnerabilities across a wide range of operating systems and applications has many concerned about the implications of the technology for higher education.
A recent ransomware attack on Instructure's Canvas LMS has raised concerns across the higher education community about cybersecurity, data privacy, third-party risk, and institutional preparedness. More than 950 EDUCAUSE community members joined an EDUCAUSE QuickTalk webinar to discuss campus impacts, share questions, and explore how institutions are responding.
"Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy" tackles the philosophical, moral, strategic, and organizational quandaries related to higher education cybersecurity, privacy, and data. This month, Mike answers your questions about artificial intelligence–enabled cheating, risk tradeoffs, and audit fatigue.
"Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy" tackles the philosophical, moral, strategic, and organizational quandaries related to higher education cybersecurity, privacy, and data. This month, Mike answers your questions about cybersecurity strategy, CMMC/CUI-compliant research computing and storage infrastructure, and the unchecked expansion of cybersecurity job responsibilities.
As the role of higher education evolves, cybersecurity approaches must adapt. By collaboratively reexamining the cross-functional ecosystem that supports cybersecurity, higher education leaders and cybersecurity professionals can better align risk, security, business, and technology efforts with institutional strategic goals.
