Risk management issues have increasingly spread across higher education, including information technology. As institutional investment in IT and reliance on information systems has grown, so has the need for universities to take effective action to avoid risks as well as prepare for worse case scenarios to lessen the harm to the institution's brand, reputation, networks, or databases. 
 

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