State and federal funding for higher education has many administrators in a spending mood, but sometimes the most important conversations to have are the hard ones. Now is the time to plan for worst-case scenarios. The increase in ransomware attacks this year reminds me of a side of information technology that we don’t often talk about. Our excitement around innovation and transformation within teaching and learning, research, and other aspects of the university mission is both understandable and justified. Yet there is exceptional risk when things go wrong — sometimes terribly wrong.
https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/it-risks-for-higher-ed-whats-the-worst-that-could-happen
