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Strengthen Your Defenses with Password Auditing

Weak passwords are as dangerous as leaving the front door of your house wide open for criminals to walk right in. Learn how password audits can help secure your organization.

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Seven Ways to Support Cyber Security Month in October and EVERY Month

Take cybersecurity seriously in October and every month. Here’s seven easy ways to do so yourself, and share with others as well:

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Top 10 Back to School Blunders

The biggest mistakes parents usually make at the start of a new school can easily convert to best practices for your team to consider when building and maintaining your organization’s information security and compliance programs.

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To Pay or Not to Pay? Ransomware Attacks Targeting Cities and Universities

Is your organization an easy target for ransomware? If your systems were attacked, are you confident you could restore all data and services in a timely manner?

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NIST SP 800-171 Framework Series: Incident Response

Incident Response is one of the 14 requirements outlined in the NIST SP 800-171 and this article covers Requirement 3.6 in more detail.

Incident Response
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Protecting Your Institution’s Reputation in the Event of a Data Breach

The way a college or university manages a data breach will directly impacts its reputation after the dust settles. If your institution does fall victim to a data breach, what are some of the best practices that we have learned from the breaches that came before?

Higher Education
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Eighty-five percent.

Studies show that 85% of data breaches are related to human error, so it's important that your organization is taking impactful steps to address the areas of your cybersecurity posture that can be impacted by human error. But how?

Online Training
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Ecommerce: A Growing Target for Hackers

Are hackers shifting their focus to ecommerce sites in order to steal customer payment information?

Cybersecurity
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Top EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference Takeaways

I had the honor of joining some of my fellow CampusGuardian’s attending the EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference here in my hometown of Chicago this past week, and I have a handful of takeaways that I would like to share with you all.

Cybersecurity
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