higher education

As I mentioned previously, this year, I’m going back to school. Not to take classes but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a decade ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant negative impact on college students’ mental health. While students’ mental health is already a concern for universities – 40% of undergraduates reported feeling depressed within ...

From financial aid information to social security numbers, students regularly share private information with their universities trusting that the university will keep it safe. That’s why it was disappointing when three major ...

Last week, I drove my oldest to college, which took me through Iowa’s cornfields. As I gazed upon aisle after aisle of corn, the synapses in my brain started firing and I ...

In today’s cloud-first world, employees are sometimes trusted to manage their own projects, giving them freedom to work with the tools of their choosing to complete their tasks. Occasionally, these tools are ...

Organizations in higher education have a unique set of challenges when it comes to cybersecurity. They store and process a wide variety of data in the course of their day-to-day operations and, ...

Cloud computing is now widely used in higher education. It has become an indispensable tool for both the institutions themselves and their students. This is mainly because cloud applications, such as such ...

Hurricanes, power-outages, man-made disasters—every organization has to prepare for these but when it comes to emergencies, universities face unique challenges because of the very nature of their structure and communities. Unlike the ...

The results of the 2018 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study showed a widening of the global cybersecurity workforce gap to nearly 3 million across North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Europe, the ...

By now, it is safe to assume that almost everyone in business has at least heard about ransomware. But, what are the implications of ransomware attacks? And what should you know about ...