Cybersecurity

EDUCAUSE Workforce Studies

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:55:20 Z

A list of all the EDUCAUSE workforce reports, 2014 to present.

Horizon Reports

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:57:26 Z

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

2025 Horizon Action Plan: Building Skills and Literacy for Teaching with GenAI

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:50:02 Z

Our expert panel examines the preferred future of GenAI in higher education and provides an action plan to help you get there.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions about Cyber Insurance

Fri, 16 May 2025 12:14:00 Z

This document contains advice intended for general information only. To learn how cyber insurance applies to your institution, please contact your institution’s risk management office or chief information officer.

2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Supporting Agency, Trust, Transparency, and Involvement

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:09:12 Z

This report describes how advancing the future of higher education cybersecurity and privacy will be done by supporting agency, trust, transparency, and involvement among stakeholders.

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.

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.

EDUCAUSE Comments: Possible NSF Development of a Research Security and Integrity Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (RSI-ISAO)

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:17:03 Z

EDUCAUSE provided a response to the National Science Foundation (NSF) on June 27, 2023, regarding its request for comments on the possible development of a research security and integrity information sharing and analysis organization (RSI-ISAO).

EDUCAUSE Comments: NIST Research Cybersecurity Resource Development

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:57:19 Z

On June 27, 2023, EDUCAUSE submitted a cover letter and comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in response to its request for input on the resources that it could develop to support research cybersecurity at colleges and universities.

EDUCAUSE Comments: Draft Cybersecurity Provisions for Research Security Programs

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:16:58 Z

EDUCAUSE submitted comments to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on June 5, 2023, concerning the draft requirements for research security programs under National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33).

The Higher Education CPO Primer: A Welcome and How-To Kit for Chief Privacy Officers in Higher Education

Wed, 31 May 2023 14:08:07 Z

The primary audience for this primer is a chief privacy officer (CPO) or a person with primary institutional responsibility for privacy.

NIST SP 800-171 Overview

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:00:01 Z

This overview provides a review of the timeline that introduced NIST SP 800-171 "Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations" as a compliance framework, an overview of the control families for the 110 controls and a discussion of the impacts and concerns for higher education.

NIST SP 800-171 Toolkit

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:00:01 Z

In this toolkit, you will find an overview of NIST SP 800-171 and its implications for higher education, questions to ask during project planning, 7 Things You Should Know About CMMC to use when speaking with stakeholders and leadership, and a customizable control evaluation.

7 Things You Should Know About Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:31:19 Z

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a set of policies and practices that address the protection of federal Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) data through administrative, physical, and technical controls.

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.

2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:07:50 Z

The 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, 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.

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.