Academia Needs Strategy to Manage Cybersecurity
Don Welch, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Penn State published a nice write-up on the need for strategy. Cybersecurity in academia is more challenging than most understand and it requires forethought, planning, and good metrics to keep it on the risk management tracks.
Don explains:
"Cybersecurity in education is hard, we face the same threats that industries like finance and the defense industrial base do, except we face them with a culture that prizes openness, privacy and agility as well as decentralized operations"
I have overseen security at a few university co-location sites and everything Don Welch describes resonates. I would add one bit that he was kind to omit: that the users (students) themselves can be major risks and even purposely attack the system (sometimes maliciously, sometimes out of curiosity). It makes for a difficult environment to manage!
Long term success requires strategy and the metrics for operational vigilance to align to evolving risks and goals.
Those crazy kids. Hacking their own university. Animal House 2019 would be so different
Animal house 2020. Let’s film it :)
It is likely that we can apply the same points to security on the Steem blockchain and the security of the dapps that make up the ecosystem.
@DLine is an organic user retention initiative.