Protecting Data in Higher Education: Benchmarking, Classification, and the Role of Secured Clouds?

Universities and higher education research institutions are having to confront a wide variety of cybersecurity threats, from motivated lone actors through to State-sponsored hacking groups. This in turn has led to universities having a greater role to play in the securing of their research data, which could contain intellectual property or sensitive information with a significant economic value. This webinar will examine the roles being taken by universities to protect these types of data, and the emergence of secured cloud environments as a mechanisms for ensuring appropriate and authorised access to research information.

Speakers:

• Dr Brendan Walker Munro, Southern Cross University

• Nikki Peever, Director of Cyber Security, Council of Australasian Universities Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT)

Dr Brendan Walker-Munro is a Senior Fellow with the Social Cyber Institute and a Senior Lecturer (Law) with the Faculty of Business, Law & the Arts at Southern Cross University. Brendan's research focus is…