Collaborate Disseminate
As I mentioned previously, this year, I’m going back to school. Not to take classes but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a decade ago and thought it was interesting, so I was excited to give it another go. Addition… Continue reading Lessons from Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 13
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant negative impact on college students’ mental health. While students’ mental health is already a concern for universities – 40% of undergraduates reported feeling depressed within the last 12 … Continue reading Secure Messaging and Student Health During COVID – 19
From financial aid information to social security numbers, students regularly share private information with their universities trusting that the university will keep it safe. That’s why it was disappointing when three major universities this sum… Continue reading Protecting Students’ Information: Universities and Secure Communications
Last week, I drove my oldest to college, which took me through Iowa’s cornfields. As I gazed upon aisle after aisle of corn, the synapses in my brain started firing and I considered how vulnerable farmers are to agricultural IoT attacks that can… Continue reading What Do Corn, IoT and College Have in Common?
Students at Oregon State University, Graceland University and Southern Missouri State have all been impacted by email attacks against school employees. Continue reading A Spate of University Breaches Highlight Email Threats in Higher Ed
In today’s cloud-first world, employees are sometimes trusted to manage their own projects, giving them freedom to work with the tools of their choosing to complete their tasks. Occasionally, these tools are cloud applications that organiz… Continue reading Glass Class: Mitigating Risk before Shadow IT
Organizations in higher education have a unique set of challenges when it comes to cybersecurity. They store and process a wide variety of data in the course of their day-to-day operations and, consequently, must also comply with a complicated s… Continue reading Cloud Security Needs in Higher Education
Cloud computing is now widely used in higher education. It has become an indispensable tool for both the institutions themselves and their students. This is mainly because cloud applications, such as such as G Suite and Microsoft Office 365, come with… Continue reading Education: A Cloud Security Investigation (CSI)
Hurricanes, power-outages, man-made disasters—every organization has to prepare for these but when it comes to emergencies, universities face unique challenges because of the very nature of their structure and communities. Unlike the average offi… Continue reading Ahead of the Curve: University Incident Response Plans and Communications
The results of the 2018 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study showed a widening of the global cybersecurity workforce gap to nearly 3 million across North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). While … Continue reading Higher Ed Brings Hands-On Cybersecurity Experiences to Students