BO23. Cybersecurity - The Challenges Facing FAAs

Description

This session focuses on the cybersecurity challenges facing Financial Aid Administrators (FAAs) and Information Technology (IT) managers. The session will begin with a brief overview of federal IT cybersecurity initiatives and the threat landscape that affects institutions of higher education (IHEs). This session will discuss compliance requirements, threats to the schools, and best practices for data protection and identity theft. Additionally, the session will define what constitutes a breach, discuss common and not so common examples of breaches, describe how to report a breach to FSA, and the FSA process to manage breach reports. This session will close with a question and answer period by FSA experts in cybersecurity. Presenter(s): Daniel Commons

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