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Welcome to “Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy.” This new monthly column will tackle the philosophical, moral, strategic, and organizational quandaries related to higher education cybersecurity, privacy, and data. This month, Mike answers your questions about required security training, trust, and procurement.

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.

“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 enforcing the rules, reporting metrics, and contextualizing fear.

“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 planning for security incidents, building future-focused strategies amid rapid change, and navigating financial challenges.

Cyberattacks, licensing limitations, and platform dependence are reshaping how libraries function. Brewster Kahle provides some context around these challenges, and a path toward sustainable access through local control.

“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.

EDUCAUSE researchers and panelists discuss takeaways from the 2024 Horizon Report, Cybersecurity and Privacy Edition.

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.

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.