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FTC Regulations Could Have Major Impact on Higher Ed Cybersecurity Standards

by Jackie Davis
July 2, 2019
in Higher Education
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For colleges and universities, IT functions can be a difficult task to handle with large amounts of student and employee data piling up. With proposed Federal Trade Commission regulations on the horizon, the data burden could become even heavier with security at the forefront. For institutions that are struggling to protect and utilize data, outsourcing IT functions may be the best choice for employees and organizations.

Protecting Education Data

With personal information, student data, and employee credentials as just a small piece of the higher ed data pie, colleges and universities are prime targets for hackers. As schools increase the number of tech tools they use throughout campus, keeping a network safe can be a difficult task, but cybersecurity isn’t the only concern – any disruption in the network can have a significant impact.

How can schools mitigate risk while optimizing connectivity? The whitepaper, “The Missing Piece of Higher Education IT Incident Management”, explores how.

Read more here.

Relieving the Data Burden

With cyber threats and data demands growing, colleges and universities are looking for ways to decrease the data burden on staff. Ludge Olivier, CEO of The Cornerstone Professional Group, LLC (Cornerstone), explains how outsourcing some or all IT functions can benefit schools by allowing employees to focus on their main mission and leaving the IT to the professionals.

“Whether infrastructure oriented or software oriented, IT needs to be a critical lever within the enterprise,” Olivier said. Otherwise, he explained, outsourcing some or all of the IT function should be seen as a way to manage resources more effectively.

Read more here.

FTC Cyber Requirements for Higher Ed

Proposed cybersecurity requirements from the Federal Trade Commission could have a big impact on colleges and universities. The changes would impose new regulations on schools due to their financial aid activities that many in the higher ed community are saying would be impossible to comply with.

The Safeguards Rule, for instance, was designed to ensure the safety of networks and data in institutions handling consumer financial data which would now include colleges and universities, forcing the organizations to extend their cyber policies.

Read more here.

Tags: Cornerstone Professional GroupCybercybersecurityed ITEdTecheducation dataFederal Trade CommissionFTC

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