Cybersecurity Tips to Stay Safe Online & While Traveling

Unfortunately, there is no one size fits all solution for protecting your information; however, you can make it more difficult for cyber-criminals to access your personal and work-related information. The following tips, tricks, and strategies are provided by industry leaders in cybersecurity and can help defend against threats.

Educause Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • The Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment te a.m. is launching HECVAT 4 in January 2025. The updated toolkit will include questions about privacy and artificial intelligence.
  • EDUCAUSE researchers and panelists discuss takeaways from the 2024 Horizon Report, Cybersecurity and Privacy Edition.
  • Conventional approaches to security training are insufficient to meet the rising tide of cybersecurity threats. Conducting a risk assessment is the first step in identifying the highest risks to human behavior, and mitigating those risks is how the security culture of an organization is changed.
  • Higher education institutions must treat cybersecurity as a fund a.m.ental competency, raising awareness a.m.ong users, developing plans, and assessing tools and resources, as cybersecurity threats expand and evolve alongside the laws, policies, practices, and solutions aimed at protecting data and digital systems, all in order to safeguard institutional assets and train tomorrow’s cybersecurity professionals and leaders.
  • Colleges and universities implement countless third-party products and services, any of which could pose risks to the institution, its data, and its constituents.
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National Cybersecurity Alliance - Stay Safe Online

US-CERT Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency - National Cyber Awareness System - Tips