Cyber resilience is the heart of any organization’s efforts to protect its assets from cyber criminals around the world. The warning from FBI Intelligence Chiefs and agencies around the world is clear: State-sponsored cyber espionage is a major threat to research, innovation, and technology organizations.
Universities and colleges hold precious academic research and intellectual property assets that China, Russia, North Korea, and other adversaries want to steal. Consider the personal and financial data also collected by schools, and it’s not surprising that the higher education system in the US is one of the most cyber-breached sectors in the U.S.
Why are cybercriminals winning?
Challenges with cyber resilience. In addition to being prime targets for hacking, major U.S. universities are handing state-sponsored cybercriminals the country’s educational intellectual capital on a silver platter.
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