Top Ten Issues in Higher Education

Each year EDUCAUSE / ECAR produces a set of Top-Ten Issues.

A presentation at the EDUCAUSE conference this week gave a first glimpse of the 2015 Issues.  These will be published next January, but are available here:

 Points 7, 8 and 9 all refer to Information Security.

How to make your University Secure - Poster

Presented at EDUCAUSE poster session.

How to Make Your University CyberSecure

I ran a workshop at EDUCAUSE last week titled: 'Diamonds and Paper Clips: Steps Needed to Make Your University Cybersecure'. 

We conducted a survey, and there were really interesting results. The results show percentage of universities represented having specific achievements:

Percentage with IS primarily in IT department: 95% (but strong views that IS has to become separated from IT)

Percentage with recognised and agreed Incident Response Process: 20%

Percentage with signed-off university IS policy: 25%

Percentage with information asset register: 35%

Percentage attempting to classify assets: 25%

Percentage with IS risk register: 10%

Percentage where university can identify most valuable information assets: 15%

Percentage where university can identify most valuable assets and perform risk assessment: 3%