The Human Nature of Cybersecurity

• Jessica Barker
• May 20, 2019
• In Print

By understanding cognitive biases and shortcuts, we can better engage people to improve cybersecurity awareness, behavior, and culture.

Creating a Cybersecurity Strategy for Higher Education

• Don Welch
• May 20, 2019
• In Print

Cyberattacks on higher education are increasingly frequent and damaging. Meeting the challenge, especially in higher education, requires strategic thinking, and that strategy must come from cybersecurity-specific strategic thinking.

21st-Century Analytics: New Technologies and New Rules

• Vince Kellen
• May 20, 2019
• In Print

Today’s designers of data analytics systems are using thirty-year-old mental models around scarcity of compute and are thus crippling their designs, not fully realizing how radically different 21st-century analytics has become.

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Analytics, Interrupted

• John O'Brien
• May 20, 2019
• In Print

Progress on data and analytics has stalled. EDUCAUSE is working with NACUBO and AIR to produce an analytics statement advocating for these important efforts in higher education and modeling the collaborative spirit needed for success.

The Internal Auditor as a Trusted Resource: An Interview with Justin Noble

• Justin Noble and John O'Brien
• May 20, 2019
• In Print

Internal auditors can be a trusted resource. IT leaders can partner with internal auditors as a way to ensure that operational, compliance, and governance risks are being managed.

Using AI to Help Students Learn "How to College"

• Dawn Medley
• May 20, 2019
• In Print
• Editors' Pick

Artificial intelligence can help students learn “how to college.” This sets them on the path to graduation and to success far beyond the college or university.

Open-Access Monographs: New Tools, More Access

• Monica McCormick
• May 20, 2019
• In Print

Beyond the multiple options for creating and disseminating open-access books in new forms, OA monograph publishing projects are driven by the value of releasing scholarship in forms that are free and available to anyone.

Proactive Security versus Surveillance?

• Tina Thorstenson
• May 20, 2019
• In Print

In a world that is increasingly defined by data and information, those of us in higher education information technology must question our assumptions about security and privacy as we move forward.

A Strategic Leader for Student Success: An Argument for the Chief Academic Technology Officer

• Helen Chu and Bill Hogue
• May 20, 2019
• In Print

Academic technology developments, which offer potential solutions to improving student success, demand an institutional academic technology strategy led by the Chief Academic Technology Officer (CATO).

Spring Cleaning: Security and Privacy [infographic]

• ECAR
• May 20, 2019
• In Print

Spring is traditionally a time for cleaning and organizing. Information security and privacy practices need as much upkeep as (or more upkeep than) storage sheds and closets. Find out how higher education institutions view and treat these critical topics.

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