Elevating Security Awareness

Key Insights

As data breaches become more common in higher education, many IT leaders are reinvesting in technology protections and rewriting policies. However, few have critically examined how their security awareness and education campaigns engage stakeholders and enfranchise end-users in campus information security.

This study outlines the best practices of how to:

• Hardwire data breach response on campus
• Proactively educate boards and executives about security issues
• Make risks relevant for end-users and department leaders
• Vividly demonstrate vulnerability using real campus data
• Incent secure behaviors