Vulnerability Assessment and Management

2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Cybersecurity and Privacy Edition

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:46:52 Z

The 2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of cybersecurity and privacy, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

Arctic EWS Research Paper

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 19:07:53 Z

This is a joint research project of Arctic Security and EDUCAUSE, The goal was to establish the utility of external cybersecurity monitoring for higher education, and to identify services that could be made easily accessible and boost the cyber defenses of the association’s members.

7 Things You Should Know About Endpoint Detection and Response

Tue, 25 May 2021 16:55:56 Z

Endpoint detection and response (EDR) is the process of monitoring endpoint activity in real time, looking for digital threats and implementing measures to halt and remediate those threats.

How UMD Supports Researchers With CUI Requirements

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 22:30:45 Z

The University of Maryland Controlled Unclassified Information Environment is a secure computing and storage cluster that supports research and project data that must be protected using the NIST SP 800-171 guidelines. This solution provides our researchers a System Security Plan to present to sponsors.

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.

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.

Campus Security Awareness Blogs, 2018

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:25:50 Z

These 12 EDUCAUSE Review "Security Matters" column blog posts are part of the 2018 Campus Security Awareness Campaign.

Budget-Conscious Information Security Resources

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:38:07 Z

How can institutions that are just starting out with an information security program, or those with even more limited resources, successfully protect institutional IT resources and data?

2017 Trends and Technologies: Security, Identity, Privacy, and GRC

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 19:04:02 Z

This report covers the 20 technologies and 9 trends included in the security, identity, privacy, and GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) domain.

Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devices and In the Cloud

Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:07:11 Z

The U.S. government reported a five-fold increase in the number of electronic media searches at the border in a single year, from 4,764 in 2015 to 23,877 in 2016.1 Every one of those searches was a potential privacy violation.

Searching for a Smoking Gun, Chasing a Silver Bullet: Data Breaches in Higher Education

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:36:15 Z

The EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) published its first look at data breaches in higher education in 2014. Our current research looks at whether any factors increase or decrease the likelihood of a higher education data breach. Is there a smoking gun, something found in every higher education data breach? And, conversely, is there a silver bullet—a control or controls that higher education institutions can employ to prevent data breaches?

Splunk

Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:00:05 Z

Splunk is a log management, search, correlation, and data visualization tool. More institutions are starting to use this type of predictive analytics tool to better understand the large amounts of machine (i.e., log) data being generated across the institution. Better analyzing this data means that more informed business decisions can be made across the institution.

Top 10 Steps to Manage IT Security in Today's World

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:33:24 Z

EDUCAUSE Live! Webinar on managing cybersecurity in higher education.

Browsing the Web More Securely and More Privately With Firefox On Your Mac

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:36:24 Z

This document is meant to help moderately technical users who are security- and privacy-focused make progress toward achieving online security and privacy goals when using an Apple Mac with the Mozilla Firefox browser.

Overview of Bro

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:35:09 Z

An increasing number of institutions are recognizing the need to log network data in large volume and to analyze the data efficiently to detect sophisticated network intrusion attempts affecting their network space.

Information Security

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:35:02 Z

This Spotlight focuses on data from the 2012 Core Data Service (CDS) to better understand how higher education institutions approach information security activities.

Security of Information Technology Resources Policy at Indiana University

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:29:59 Z

It is very important that everyone associated with providing and using these technology services is diligent in their administration and responsive to security threats.

Surveying the Steps to a Secure Emory University

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:11:42 Z

This research bulletin summarizes how Emory University used the results of a security survey of higher education institutions to make important, peer-informed decisions on how to secure and protect its computing environment.

Unauthenticated Authentication: Null Bytes and the Affect on Web-based

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:12:03 Z