Re: Identifying 3 CyberSecurity Literacy Topics for Students

[Eric Weakland <eric () AMERICAN EDU>]

I like a lot of the ideas I’m seeing.  My two shekels.


  1.  phishing/be critical thinkers online – These are closely related.  Phishing relies on abusing your trust – there 
are TONs of folks in this world who’s goal is to do so.  Learn to be a skeptical email reader, reader of things in 
general in this online circus we call the internet.


2) passwords and mfa - never share, longer better, mfa best.  Your credentials are for you, and you alone: realize – 
you may be held accountable for their use! You should never share them, and they need to be strong – longer is better 
and MFA is best.
3) remember!  Privacy is your responsibility - online is often forever, think, “Are you ok with everything you post 
being shown to potential employers, folks doing a security clearance?”

Eric Weakland, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, ITIL
Director, Information Security
Office of Information Technology
American University
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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> on behalf of Cathy Hubbs 
<hubbs () AMERICAN EDU>
Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Date: Monday, August 17, 2020 at 1:53 PM
To: "SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU" <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Subject: [SECURITY] Identifying 3 CyberSecurity Literacy Topics for Students

Good afternoon colleagues,
I have an opportunity to engage undergrad students in a single zoom session – introducing them to 3 cyber security 
literacy topics. I thought I would leveraage the brainpower of the HE community to hear what top 3 topics you would 
focus on if given this opportunity.

Thank you!

Cathy

Cathy Hubbs
Chief Information Security Officer
American University, Washington DC
Office of Information Technology



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