Insecurity U

Insecurity U David Crain, Assistant Provost & CIO, Southern Illinois University Am I just paranoid or should we be concerned with the present state of security within higher education? I very much think the latter. In the last few weeks, we learned that a cybercrime group in Russia may have obtained 1.2 billion stolen identities. We also just witnessed the Sony PlayStation network taken down by hackers which, incidentally, is the second major attack on Sony, with the first one exposing 77 million personal records. These recent events are just the latest in a long list of security incidents over the last year that has included other high profile data breaches such as: