The 5 “Must Do’s” in Higher Ed Cybersecurity

SonicWall and Campus Technology provide a strategic playbook for how to address higher education’s biggest hurdles, including key tactics on how to improve both threat preparedness and responsiveness. Given higher education’s unique balancing act between openness and security, having a strategy for shoring up cyber defenses is critical. And as the number and sophistication of threats targeting higher education continue to increase, it’s essential that this strategy include plans for both increasing threat prevention as well as honing response tactics in the case that an attack is successful. This is the second in a three-part series describing how colleges and universities can respond to today’s rapidly shifting threat landscape. Part 1 outlines some of the biggest challenges that colleges and universities face in ensuring the success of students, and Part 3 features two prominent experts in higher education cybersecurity, who answer some of the most common questions and offer practical firsthand advice on how to manage information security at the post-secondary level.