Executive Summary
Given the increasing and rapidly changing risk, cybersecurity should be a key focus for all higher education institutions.
Institutions collect and store a wide variety of data across many departments, ranging from health and financial information to intellectual property. Students and their families, employees, and the general public have high expectations for how your institution safeguards sensitive information. A breach can have significant and long lasting repercussions for your institution’s operations, finances, reputation, and public trust.
While this affects all institutions, those that participate in Title IV programs face additional information security requirements. These institutions are considered financial institutions under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), which includes privacy and information security provisions to protect individuals’ personal information.
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