Multimedia | Risk and cybersecurity
Higher Ed Advisor: designing an effective cybersecurity strategy to safeguard institutional data and research
Oct. 18, 2022
Allen Baxter, Information Security Officer, The University of Southern MississippiCybersecurity in higher education requires a cultural change. It’s important to get everyone to understand that there needs to be changes in the way that we do business, so it really starts at the top by educating leadership and then building a strategy to communicate it out to all the stakeholders.
Welcome to Higher Ed Advisor, the Baker Tilly podcast series where we speak with higher education industry leaders about practical and proactive guidance to help colleges and universities protect and enhance their value.
Cybercrime continues to elevate information technology (IT) risks across higher education and the research institution community is a prime target for increasingly more advanced and dangerous attacks. In this podcast, the University of Southern Mississippi’s (USM) Information Security Officer, Allen Baxter, and Baker Tilly’s Higher Education Cybersecurity Leader, Mike Cullen, navigate the critical role cybersecurity plays to protect institutional data and research.
Listen as we zone in on why research institution leaders should raise their awareness, education, collaboration, communication and plans to effectively and strategically manage and mitigate cybersecurity risks, in addition to complying with federal research requirements. We define the most common regulations (NIST 800-171, CMMC, NSPM-33 and GLBA) and further examine:
- Why and how research institutions are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks and threats
