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30
Jan
2023
The Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) and Internet2 are excited to continue our series of IT for research and cybersecurity workshops on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) in 2023. These free, hands-on workshops are designed to equip…
10
Oct
2022
By Amber Rasche
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is underway, offering plentiful opportunities to share resources and coalesce around efforts to support secure infrastructure, reliable solutions, and safe communities. This year’s theme, which is collaboratively set by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National…
05
Oct
2022
By Teni Agbesanwa
In 2004, the National Cyber Security Alliance and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declared October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This month is dedicated to providing people with online safety resources by emphasizing the importance of taking the proper steps to enhance cybersecurity on university campuses,…
13
Oct
2021
By Nick Lewis, Internet2 Program Manager
Nick Lewis I know last year and most of this year is still a blur for many of you on campus, but even during these challenging times, there’s still so much going on in the world of cybersecurity! I’m trying to do my part by writing blogs about Cybersecurity…
06
Oct
2021
By Nick Lewis, Program Manager, NET+ Cloud Services – Security and Identity
It’s always great to hear from campuses about what they like about the community and how it has benefited them! The Welcome to 2021 Orientation for Higher Ed Information Security and Privacy panel talked about so many community resources that it was difficult to keep up with and we…
25
Aug
2021
By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer
Ah, the students are returning. This is why we do what we do, right? For the chaos? Our lives would be so boring without them around!Qrator posted a quarterly analysis of DDoS and BGP attacks. The majority of DDoS attacks were UDP-based, and the median attack time was 270 seconds, or…
23
Jun
2021
By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer
Well, it’s summer, and things are starting to get back to normal in many places. Living in a college town, we typically see fewer people outside in the summer because many of them have gone back home, but I was driving yesterday and was surprised by just how many people…
08
Jun
2021
By Susan Sons, chief security analyst at Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research; deputy director of the Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC); and supporting Trusted CI The NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Register for Open Science Operational Security in Action: ResearchSOC Deployment at NSF Facilities event to be held Thursday, June 17 at 1 p.m. ET. When we work with scientific organizations on cybersecurity, we find that security operations are a heavy lift for them. One challenge is…
27
Apr
2021
By Nick Lewis, Internet2 Program Manager Nick Lewis I am excited to share that this year’s EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Conference (formerly the Security Professionals Conference) is virtual and is scheduled for June 8–10. The conference features just-in-time content to help us address the challenges facing our institutions.
