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Cybersecurity for Managers
Speaker: Ardoth Hassler
What a Manager Needs to Know and Ask About Cybersecurity and What makes a good security plan? Information security is a journey, not a destination. The research and education community faces a pressing need for effective and efficient strategies for securing its IT infrastructure, balancing risks against costs. Researchers perceive cybersecurity as expensive, time consuming, decreasing researcher efficiency and effectiveness, and yet remaining fallible. However, cybersecurity requirements are particularly important in large, federally-sponsored facilities that operate interconnected networks of diverse resources including computers, information stores, and special instrumentation. Moreover, the NSF Cooperative Agreement calls for information security to be the responsibility of the awardee. Starting with “why do we need it?”, best practices in cybersecurity that might be useful for NSF Large Facilities will be discussed emphasizing the elements of a good security plan and how it can be structured to meet the criteria in the Cooperative Agreement.
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