REN-ISAC, the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center at Indiana University, serves more than 540 member institutions and supports the entire higher education community as a computer security incident response team.
As the executive director, Kim Milford has insight into their shared challenges, along with recommendations to build a better risk management strategy. One step that IT leaders don’t take often enough, she says, is to reach out to peers.
This year, REN-ISAC is working to close that gap with a new series of workshops. Milford discussed this initiative and other topics with EdTech.
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EDTECH: REN-ISAC is taking a more holistic approach to risk management. What does that look like for higher education?
MILFORD: Traditionally, REN-ISAC has focused on cyber risks and cyber operational protection. But in this new world we’re in, the threat is not physical or cyber — it’s both, most of the time.
Let’s say there’s a physical threat on campus, like a hurricane. Because of the physical, all sorts of cyber ramifications happen. All those…
