Security
EDUCAUSE 2024: What Comes Next? Rebuilding Together After a Cyberattack
Colleges and universities are routinely under attack by cybercriminals, and hundreds of those individuals or criminal organizations have successfully breached higher education networks in recent years. That’s what happened at Lewis & Clark College in 2023, when an administrator’s credentials were compromised and attackers reached inside the school’s IT systems.
More than a year later, at EDUCAUSE 2024 in San Antonio, Meredith Goddard shared her college’s story of attack and recovery, including lessons the college wishes it had learned before being targeted. She also explained some of the silver linings that have come out of the attack and tried to inspire the audience to take proactive positions to prevent attacks rather than acting reactively, as Lewis & Clark had to do out of necessity.
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Participants
Meredith Goddard, Director of Enterprise Applications, Lewis & Clark College
Carly Walker, Manager, Higher Education Consultancy, CDW
Video Highlights
- Lewis & Clark College identified a malicious actor on its network in 2023 and immediately got on the phone with their technology partners at CDW
- Higher education institutions are best defended when they react proactively, not reactively, to cyberthreats, but that’s something much easier said than done
- Campus leaders at Lewis & Clark came together after the cyberattack in ways they hadn’t before, teaming up to implement security policies and procedures as a unified front.
