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Trust and Identity in Research and Education Program Report Released, Highlights Key Accomplishments for Simplifying Campus Processes and Advancing Inter-Institutional Collaboration and Research

The time involved in installing and configuring key software components has been significantly reduced, and training opportunities have expanded to help organizations come up to speed more quickly. Those are two of the findings of the final report from the Trust and Identity in Education and Research (TIER) program, which was released earlier this week. […]

FTC’s ‘Safeguards Rule’ cybersecurity proposal may burden higher ed

The Federal Trade Commission extended the deadline on comments for a notice of proposed rulemaking earlier this month that will leave higher education stakeholders until Aug. 2 to weigh in on new proposed cybersecurity requirements for their institutions. edscoop

The Human Nature of Cybersecurity

In 1999, Bruce Schneier popularized the concept that cybersecurity is about people, process, and technology.1 Yet two decades later, we still focus much more on technology than on the other two dimensions. For a long time, when the cybersecurity community did consider the human aspect, this was done within the context that “humans are the […]

Top 10 IT Issues, 2019: The Student Genome Project

The EDUCAUSE 2019 Top 10 IT Issues are focused on organizing, standardizing, and safeguarding data so that we can utilize it to address our most pressing priority: student success. EDUCAUSE Review

An introduction to SOLID, Tim Berners-Lee’s new, re-decentralized Web

Recently, Prof. Tim Berners-Lee lifted the veil off a project called Solid. I decided to check it out. In this article, I describe what Solid aims to do, and also how you can get started with it. Medium

ConnectSafely.Org

ConnectSafely.org is a Silicon Valley, Calif.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to educating users of connected technology about safety, privacy and security. Here you’ll find research-based safety tips, parents’ guidebooks, advice, news and commentary on all aspects of tech use and policy.

Putting Advanced Computing Power Within Reach

Indiana University’s Pervasive Technology Institute is leading an NSF grant (currently valued at more than $13 million) to create, implement and operate Jetstream, a user-friendly cloud environment designed to give more researchers and students at higher education institutions access to high-end computing resources on demand, from their tablets, laptops or desktop computers. Campus Technology

Georgia Tech’s online cybersecurity master’s program gets $500K investment

Ahead of its launch in January, the online cybersecurity master’s program at the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $500,000 investment from Accenture Security, now the program’s first corporate sponsor. edscoop

Virginia Tech announces Innovation Campus in Alexandria

Virginia Tech announces $1 billion ‘innovation campus’Virginia Tech announced on Tuesday plans to construct a $1 billion “innovation campus” to be opened next year in Alexandria, Virginia, just two miles from the new HQ2 office Amazon intends to build in nearby Crystal City, Virginia. edscoop HISTORIC DAY: Virginia Tech Innovation Campus key to Virginia […]

Pursuing a cybersecurity degree from deployment: 2nd Lt. Neferteri Strickland partakes in information sciences and technology program from the Middle East through Penn State World Campus

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Neferteri Strickland was born into the military and has made a career of it. She grew up with two parents in the military and is currently a second lieutenant in the Pennsylvania National Guard. And now she’s getting her master’s degree online from Penn State in the hope of advancing her […]

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