Security Management

2025 EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity and Privacy Workforce in Higher Education

Thu, 29 May 2025 22:14:31 Z

This report examines the cybersecurity and privacy workforce in higher education and identifies challenges and priorities.

Abstract: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Toolkit

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:34:16 Z

Use the guidance and templates in this toolkit to prepare for disruptive events before they happen.

The IT Leadership Workforce in Higher Education, 2024

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:27:47 Z

This report aims to map the current contours of the higher education IT and technology leader workforce, understand its current challenges and opportunities, and reflect on what it all might mean for building a stronger workforce and, ultimately, a stronger higher education for the future.

The Cybersecurity and Privacy Workforce in Higher Education, 2023

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:04:30 Z

This report examines the cybersecurity and privacy workforce in higher education.

NIST SP 800-171 Compliance Template

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:20:41 Z

Higher education institutions continue to refine their understanding of the impact of NIST Special Publication 800-171 on their IT systems and the data they receive from the federal government. This compliance template will help institutions map the NIST SP 800-171 requirements to other common security standards used in higher education, and provides suggested responses to controls listed in NIST SP 800-171.

Higher Education Regulated Research Workshop Series: A Collective Perspective

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:03:31 Z

After an eight month effort concluding in June of 2021, 155 participants from 84 research institutions from across the United States gathered in six facilitated, NSF-sponsored workshop sessions to determine if coming together as a community could improve the support of individual programs to secure regulated data in research involving the Department of Defense or health sciences.

2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report® | Information Security Edition

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 16:33:24 Z

The 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of information security, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

Campus Security Awareness Blogs, 2019

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 21:02:31 Z

These 12 EDUCAUSE Review Security Matters column blog posts are part of the 2019 Campus Security Awareness Campaign.

National Student Clearinghouse Playbooks

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:23:36 Z

The National Student Clearinghouse has created incident response playbooks with suggested processes that colleges and universities can follow.

Regional Cybersecurity/Cyberinfrastructure Workshop Targeting MSIs: Low-Cost/High-Impact Cyberdefense and Cyberinfrastructure Resources

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 18:36:42 Z

The purpose of the inaugural CyberRISK Workshop was to bring together CIOs and CISOs from regional Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in order to introduce effective, community-developed and -coordinated cybersecurity protections and cyberinfrastructure (CI).

Password Managers

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:38:07 Z

Learn more about password manager tools, who might use these tools and why, as well as the benefits and risks to consider when using these tools.

Higher Education Information Security Council Charter

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:38:03 Z

The HEISC mission is to support higher education institutions as they improve information security governance, compliance, data protection, and privacy programs.

Security Operations Center (SOC) Case Study

Wed, 29 May 2019 15:09:16 Z

Higher education institutions are beginning to organize operational security into security operations centers to monitor and respond to security incidents as a means to improve efficiency.

Phishing Simulation Programs

Thu, 07 Apr 2016 18:21:06 Z

This updated document briefly explains the benefits and potential risks of deploying a phishing simulation program, and also includes a list of popular phishing simulation programs or tools to consider. Information security practitioners can use this resource to help gain executive-level support for phishing campaigns at their institution.

A Campus Culture of Cybersecurity

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 21:22:56 Z

Among colleges and universities that have made cybersecurity a top priority, some have found innovative and comprehensive ways to educate and motivate people about good security practices.

Effective Cybersecurity for Research

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 22:01:43 Z

This paper describes an approach to cybersecurity for research that is showing great promise in breaking the security versus research impasse. A product of years of effort at Indiana University, it focuses exclusively on the researcher and the research mission, reduces the cybersecurity and compliance burden on the researcher, and aims to secure all research.

Digital Capabilities in Higher Education, 2016: Information Security

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:13:44 Z

This report examines the status of information security maturity and deployment in higher education. The maturity and deployment indices are based on contributions to the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service.

InfoSec Leadership Survey 2016

Tue, 03 May 2016 17:08:31 Z

This survey seeks to understand skills required of information security leaders in higher education.

Core Data Service Trends Almanacs, 2011-14 Data

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 19:12:02 Z

These almanacs summarize Core Data Service trend data from the 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 surveys for a subset of responding institutions. The almanacs enable a quick assessment of the state of IT financials, staffing, and services, and other key IT service areas in higher education.

The EDUCAUSE Information Security Almanac 2019

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:46:15 Z

This two-page, easy-to-scan almanac shares the most important EDUCAUSE data regarding the state of information security, privacy, and identity management in higher education.