HEISC Quarterly Update, March 2017

[Valerie Vogel <vvogel () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

I am sharing this update on behalf of our HEISC co-chairs. Thank you!
Valerie

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Dear Colleagues,

It’s just a few months into 2017 and our Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) volunteers are busy 
planning new community activities and resources for the year. Here are just a few highlights.

Since January, we have posted a dozen guest blogs by community members and graduate students in the EDUCAUSE Review 
Security Matters column<http://er.educause.edu/columns/security-matters> as part of Data Privacy Month. You can also 
review the recording, slides, and transcript for Cindy Compert’s 1/26 webinar: Big Data: What’s the Big 
Deal?<http://events.educause.edu/educause-live/webinars/2017/big-data-whats-the-big-deal> If your campus hosted a Data 
Privacy Day<http://www.educause.edu/dpd> event in January or February, we’d love to hear from you.

The 2017 Security Professionals Conference<http://www.educause.edu/sec17> program is now available online. Early-bird 
registration ends April 3. In addition to keynotes from Jack Daniel and Michelle Dennedy, there are seminars and track 
sessions on the latest infosec and privacy topics affecting higher ed and lots of opportunities to network with your 
peers.

Several new security and privacy-related articles are now available in EDUCAUSE Review:

  *   Create a Security Operations Center on Your 
Campus<http://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/1/create-a-security-operations-center-on-your-campus>
  *   Consenting Adults? Privacy in an Age of Liberated Learning 
Data<http://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/1/consenting-adults-privacy-in-an-age-of-liberated-learning-data>
  *   Information Security: Risky Business<http://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/1/information-security-risky-business> 
(part of the 2017 Top 10 IT Issues resource 
hub<https://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/research/top-10-it-issues>)
  *   Combating Security Uncertainty with Information Security 
Awareness<http://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/1/combating-security-uncertainty-with-information-security-awareness>

Some infosec resources from the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) are now freely available to all 
EDUCAUSE members. A research bulletin on data breaches in higher ed was also recently published.

  *   CDS Spotlight: Information 
Security<https://library.educause.edu/resources/2016/8/cds-spotlight-information-security>
  *   The Successful Security Awareness Professional: Foundational Skills and Continuing 
Education<https://library.educause.edu/resources/2016/8/the-successful-security-awareness-professional-foundational-skills-and-continuing-ed-strategies>
  *   Higher Education Information Security Awareness 
Programs<https://library.educause.edu/resources/2016/8/higher-education-information-security-awareness-programs>
  *   Searching for a Smoking Gun, Chasing a Silver Bullet: Data Breaches in Higher 
Education<https://library.educause.edu/resources/2017/2/searching-for-a-smoking-gun-chasing-a-silver-bullet-data-breaches-in-higher-education>
 (currently available to ECAR subscribers only)

If your campus uses the Information Security Program Self-Assessment 
Tool<https://www.educause.edu/security/assessment-tool>, please note that a new version was published in February that 
includes mapping for the 20 critical controls.

Finally, don’t miss the third 
video<http://er.educause.edu/multimedia/2016/12/video--4-it-leaders-debate-security---part-3> in our series where 4 IT 
leaders debate the implications of information security being the top item on the 2016 EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues 
list<http://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/1/top-10-it-issues-2016>. These lively debates remain timely, as information 
security is also the top item on the 2017 EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues list<https://www.educause.edu/itissues>.

Now it’s your turn! Let us know how HEISC can provide this amazing community with new resources or content that can 
help strengthen your programs and departments!

Thank you,
Sharon Pitt and Melissa Woo, HEISC Co-Chairs
www.educause.edu/security<http://www.educause.edu/security>