In an essay for the online newspaper EvoLLLution, UW–Madison CIO Lois Brooks writes that being responsible stewards of institutional and personal data requires vigilance, flexibility and thoughtful application of authority.
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CIO Lois Brooks talks AI & higher education on PBS Wisconsin’s ‘Here & Now’
Lois Brooks sat down with PBS Wisconsin’s Frederica Freyberg for a conversation about generative artificial intelligence—and how the university is managing its use among students, researchers and staff.
Network firewall work: September update
Cybersecurity to the Edge (C2E) is a broad set of initiatives to reduce risk across the campus landscape. A high priority: improving campus network protection (aka “the firewall”). Learn about the team’s progress.
Network firewall work targeting October 2022
Cybersecurity to the Edge (C2E) is a broad set of initiatives to significantly reduce risk across the campus landscape. One of C2E’s high-priority efforts is improving campus network protection (aka “the firewall”).
The CISO’s Perspective: Remembering the Magnificent Seven
CISO Bob Turner honors 7 victims of 9/11 whom he knew personally.
Now that we know what cybersecurity risk is…
The CISO’s Perspective “It’s not important because it’s policy, its policy because it’s important.” — Gary Declute After working on it for about a year, we are in the end stages of walking the Cybersecurity Risk …
The CISO’s Perspective – Beyond security and privacy: the ethical use of data
This is a re-run of an article I wrote for Security Current which was based on a presentation I delivered at the IQPC Cybersecurity in Higher Education Conference in March of this year. As the …
The CISO’s perspective: Advanced threat protection!
Remember when you received a gift you had hoped for, asked for, badgered your parents for? How about that feeling of accomplishment you had for the day or so after you unwrapped it? The Cybersecurity …
The CISO’s Perspective: Sun Tzu and the art of cyberwar
It’s been nearly a year since my wife and I bought our home in the Village of Oregon, Wisconsin. Methodically, room by room, she has been decorating and furnishing rooms with my home office being …
The CISO’s Perspective: Managing cybersecurity risk
June 21, 2016 Inside cybersecurity circles and in some IT and Policy forums we have been talking about developing a Risk Management Framework, or RMF, for many months. I am happy to announce we are …