MIT scores worst in cybersecurity

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2982494/data-protection/mit-scores-worst-in-cybersecurity.html

By Maria Korolov
CSO
Sep 10, 2015

In a cybersecurity survey of 485 large colleges and universities, the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in at the bottom of the list.

In a report released today, SecurityScorecard analyzed the educational 
institutions based on web application security, network security, endpoint 
security, IP reputation, patching, and other security indicators.

SecurityScorecard's chief research officer Alex Heid said they have a 
feeling that MIT's low scores were due in part to its cybersecurity 
research efforts.

"They do their own malware research," he said. "They run honeypots. 
They're running TOR exit nodes."

But that's only part of the story, he added.

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