How to Prevent Higher Education Cyber Attacks

Changing Higher Ed

Podcast Overview

Dr. Drumm McNaughton interviews Brian Kelly, Director of the Cybersecurity Program at Educause, about cyber risk management, and the increasing importance of including cybersecurity and cyber-hygiene in higher education’s enterprise risk management program.

Podcast Highlights

• Disruptions in cybersecurity are becoming more common as higher education institutions increasingly see their technology systems being hacked. Ransomware attacks against colleges and universities doubled over the past year.
• As part of the enterprise risk management process, leaders need to consider potential cybersecurity issues. While ransomware is in the news, other worrisome issues such as research security, foreign influence from larger nation-state actors, and evolving threats that have not yet entered the higher education ecosystem, need to be considered.
• Research security also is critical. This entails securing both research and intellectual property.
• Third-party risk management also is important. Leaders need to know what data is being provided to these third parties and contractually how that third-party will use that information.

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Dr. Drumm McNaughton provides strategy and risk management consulting for higher ed institutions.

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