Higher Ed Needs a Cybersecurity Intervention

Mimicking business-oriented security management strategies at colleges and universities is a recipe for disaster.

Higher education faces complex cybersecurity challenges that overwhelm effective business practices. Photo by Michael Figueroa.

Colleges and universities collectively represent a worst case scenario in cyber defense. Security professionals charged with protecting schools must often account for vast financial assets, large databases of personal information, and unrestrained usage of untested…