Good day. Security practices can often butt heads with academic norms, but university cybersecurity leaders are worried about protecting students, faculty and data. Schools and colleges have been frequent targets of attacks by hackers and remote learning ups the intensity, WSJ Pro’s James Rundle reports.
Also today: China’s national-security law reaches into Harvard and other schools; Defense Department tests tech for classified remote work; Taiwan blames China for recent cyberattacks; SpyCloud raises $30 million; and federal CISO leaves for law firm.
Protecting Higher Education
Colleges face education challenge on cybersecurity. Remote learning and warnings from government agencies that nation-state hackers are targeting higher education are spurring a sharper focus on cybersecurity at universities. Those involved in research related to treatments for Covid-19 are at particular risk, the agencies say.
“In an environment where it is intrinsic [for] our people to say, ‘Give away the information,’ there’s also a national interest in keeping it protected, too. It’s a super delicate balance,” Erik Decker, the chief security and privacy officer at University of Chicago Medicine, said during a panel hosted Aug. 19 by security company
Proofpoint
Inc.
Security experts often recommend zero-trust models for network access, strictly limiting authorization to trusted users and devices. But academic conventions can throw up obstacles to that approach.
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Related: China’s national-security law reaches into Harvard, Princeton classrooms. Professors at elite U.S. universities turn to code names and warning labels to protect students. (WSJ)
More Cyber News
Pandemic forces Defense Department to plan for classified remote work. The U.S. Department of Defense, which has about 1 million workers doing low-risk, unclassified tasks remotely, is testing ways for individuals to exchange classified information outside Pentagon offices, NextGov reports. Small groups are working remotely with classified data, said Lauren Knausenberger, chief transformation officer for the U.S. Air Force. A large-scale infrastructure for classified remote work is due to be ready at the end of the year, though it wouldn’t encompass secret or top secret material.
Taiwanese government agencies targeted in cyberattacks. Taiwan blamed hackers linked to China for attempts to infiltrate 10 government agencies and 6,000 email accounts of officials and others who interact with the agencies, Reuters reports. Some government data might have been compromised in the attacks, which date to 2018, according to Liu Chia-zung, deputy director of the Taiwan Investigation Bureau’s Cyber Security Investigation Office.
SpyCloud raised $30 million in funding. Austin-based startup SpyCloud Inc., which makes tools to prevent hackers from taking over online accounts, secured the Series C funding from Centana Growth Partners,
Microsoft
’s
M12 venture fund, Altos Ventures, Silverton Partners and March Capital Partners, InfoSecurity Magazine reports. During the coronavirus pandemic, hackers have increased attempts to compromise employee and customer accounts.
Federal CISO leaves for private sector. Grant Schneider joined law firm Venable LLP as senior director of cybersecurity services after 30 years in federal government. (CyberScoop)
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