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Re: [External] Re: [SECURITY] Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY
From: "Gregg, Christopher S." <csgregg () STTHOMAS EDU>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 13:09:45 +0000
Nathan's Top 2 below are right up there for us, along with: 3a. Growing requirements and expectations around privacy (and privacy related compliance). For small to medium sized universities like ours, there is not a separate privacy function so security seems to be the default landing spot. 3b. Vendor management and risk assessment. Since more and more we don't host the systems being used by our university, tracking, managing, and assessing the risk of our IT vendors has become critical and never ending. This can be related to ransomware since our vendors can be affected by ransomware as well, or contribute to our vulnerability to it. I would also call out the 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report : Information Security Edition from February that contains a lot of information on security trends and forecasts: https://library.educause.edu/resources/2021/2/2021-educause-horizon-report-information-security-edition Thanks, Chris Chris Gregg Associate Vice President of Information Security & Risk Management, CISO Innovation & Technology Services (ITS) csgregg () stthomas edu<mailto:csgregg () stthomas edu> p 1 (651) 962-6265 University of St. Thomas | stthomas.edu<https://www.stthomas.edu/> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> On Behalf Of Nathan Phillips Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 6:47 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [External] Re: [SECURITY] Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY these are my top two 1. Protecting against Ransomware (or rather, are we truly protected, which includes having cyberinsurance) 2. Preparing for NIST 800-171 to be required and can we do the above without extra expense? (i.e., is security a bottomless pit?) -Nathan -------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Phillips, CIO (he/him) American College of Healthcare Sciences Portland, Oregon -------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 4:11 PM June Klein <june () kleinnet com<mailto:june () kleinnet com>> wrote: Hi everyone, We are embarking on our second Cybersecurity Assessment and the Finance/Risk Committee of the board is asking what other universities think are the "hot topics" for cybersecurity in Universities. If you can send those to me, I would be grateful so we can make sure we a) report back to the Board of Trustees what I found out from all of you, and b) that we include this in our upcoming Cybersecurity Assessment. Thank you. - Dr. June Rumiko Klein Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer -- Dr. June Rumiko Klein Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer Palo Alto University email: june () kleinnet com<mailto:june () kleinnet com> Cell: 650-740-8968 FAX: 650-856-2430 ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.educause.edu%2Fcommunity&data=04%7C01%7Ccsgregg%40STTHOMAS.EDU%7C2ad1bc17168f411ed23408d9732300e7%7Ca081ff79318c45ec95f338ebc2801472%7C1%7C0%7C637667416586012394%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=6hKLny6jSNVIVMkhJW7yhz9uURWC3QgfehH6Ofeo9lo%3D&reserved=0> ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.educause.edu%2Fcommunity&data=04%7C01%7Ccsgregg%40STTHOMAS.EDU%7C2ad1bc17168f411ed23408d9732300e7%7Ca081ff79318c45ec95f338ebc2801472%7C1%7C0%7C637667416586012394%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=6hKLny6jSNVIVMkhJW7yhz9uURWC3QgfehH6Ofeo9lo%3D&reserved=0> ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
Current thread:
- Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY June Klein (Sep 08)
- Re: Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY Nathan Phillips (Sep 08)
- Re: Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY June Klein (Sep 08)
- Re: Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY Kimmitt, Jonathan (Sep 08)
- Re: [External] Re: [SECURITY] Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY Gregg, Christopher S. (Sep 09)
- Re: [External] Re: [SECURITY] Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY Foss, Henry L. 'Hank' (Sep 09)
- Re: Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY June Klein (Sep 08)
- Re: Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY Menne, Michael S (Sep 09)
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- Re: Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY Cal Frye (Sep 09)
- Re: Top 3 "hot topics" for CYBERSECURITY Nathan Phillips (Sep 08)