Higher education is a major target of bad actors in cybersecurity: Stealing student information. Exposing the private files of trustees and executive leadership. Hacking into researchers’ intellectual property. Accessing an old, unpatched server to expand horizontally and hold hostage the institution’s most critical IT assets. Everything is at risk. University leaders are increasingly challenged to balance their responsibility to identify and manage cyber risks with their mission to deliver high-quality research, teaching, and service. Universities have diverse constituencies along with governance that has been designed to ensure all stakeholders have a voice. This session will present the best practices for managing cybersecurity risks in higher education featuring Bruce Maas, retired CIO and vice provost for IT at UW-Madison, and a past EDUCAUSE board member; and Vincent Scheivert, director of technical strategy at Telos Corp., an established cybersecurity company that has newly entered the higher education market.
