Cybersecurity Tips to Stay Safe Online & While Traveling

A recent ransomware attack on Instructure's Canvas LMS has raised concerns across the higher education community about cybersecurity, data privacy, third-party risk, and institutional preparedness. More than 950 EDUCAUSE community members joined an EDUCAUSE QuickTalk webinar to discuss campus impacts, share questions, and explore how institutions are responding.

Anthropic’s announcement that its AI model Mythos is able to find large numbers of cybersecurity vulnerabilities across a wide range of operating systems and applications has many concerned about the implications of the technology for higher education.

"Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy" tackles the philosophical, moral, strategic, and organizational quandaries related to higher education cybersecurity, privacy, and data. This month, Mike answers your questions about artificial intelligence–enabled cheating, risk tradeoffs, and audit fatigue.

"Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy" tackles the philosophical, moral, strategic, and organizational quandaries related to higher education cybersecurity, privacy, and data. This month, Mike answers your questions about cybersecurity strategy, CMMC/CUI-compliant research computing and storage infrastructure, and the unchecked expansion of cybersecurity job responsibilities.

As the role of higher education evolves, cybersecurity approaches must adapt. By collaboratively reexamining the cross-functional ecosystem that supports cybersecurity, higher education leaders and cybersecurity professionals can better align risk, security, business, and technology efforts with institutional strategic goals.