How to Protect Your University from Malware You’ve Never Heard Of - Ray Pelosi, EdTech

So, what can universities do — on their own and in league with solutions vendors — to protect against botnet assaults on their IoT devices? Design and Build with Security Top of Mind: For starters, security must be a design consideration instead of an afterthought. “Developers must start thinking about security and building it in,” says Bob Turner, CISO at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It should be a bake-it-in, don’t-bolt-it-on approach.” That includes developing security controls that focus on encryption, device authentication, key management, virtual local area network (VLAN) segregation and code signing — and doing so in a timely, cost-effective fashion. https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2017/08/how-protect-your-university-malware-you-ve-never-heard