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		<title>Automating Higher Ed Security at EDUCAUSE 2025</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why Proven Frameworks and Automation Matter for Higher Ed Security SteelCloud has just returned from exhibiting at the EDUCAUSE conference in Nashville. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit organization supporting higher education technology leaders and professionals in the advancement of teaching, learning and decision making. Topics included everything from AI and chatbots to payment technologies and cybersecurity. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[How to Spend Smarter on CIS Benchmarks Compliance Automation CIS Benchmarks set a high bar for security, and for teams tackling them the first time, that bar can look daunting. The framework is comprehensive, covering thousands of system configurations across operating systems, applications, and cloud environments. For organizations without dedicated expertise, simply knowing where to ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Recap of 2024’s Best Cybersecurity Resources Each year, SteelCloud puts pen to paper with our thoughts about cybersecurity, IT modernization, automation and the kinds of challenges our clients face in securing everything from data to war systems. In case you missed anything, check out the links below for the best and most popular content ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>6 Ways CIS Benchmarks Automation Delivers Immediate ROI</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[6 Ways CIS Benchmarks Automation Delivers Immediate ROI By now, most state and local government and education (SLED) institutions are either considering or implementing CIS Benchmarks cybersecurity. It’s an objectively good choice. In fact, in more and more instances, CIS Benchmarks or the NIST 800-53 standards they are based on are mandated for the sector. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gain Maximum Cybersecurity Protection from Minimal Budget Increases In 2018, at least a third of Atlanta government services were attacked, including police dashboard cams, utility payments and Wi-Fi at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the busiest airport in the world. When all was said and done, that breach cost the city $9.5M to recover from. Experts say ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[eBook: Budgeting for CIS Benchmarks Implementation in Higher Education As the 2021 fall semester began, two American community colleges had to close due to cyberattacks. In June 2022, the IT system of a university in Italy was held ransom for $4.5 million. And Malwarebytes called out 2023 as the “worst ransomware year on record” for ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 20:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[eBook: How to Combat the Cybersecurity Crisis in Higher Education The Higher Ed sector knows there’s a crisis afoot. Education CISOs and CIOs are aware that they are the number one target of hackers globally, with nearly 2,300 attacks per week. Everything from their decentralized legacy systems to the massive amounts of personal and proprietary ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[10 Reasons to Automate CIS Benchmarks in Higher Education In a perfect world, you’d be able to afford a mature cybersecurity program. You’d confidently laugh off the 2300 attacks on the education sector each week. You’d brush off the fact that 74% of ransomware attacks on colleges are successful. And all those people talking Higher ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Six Obstacles to Achieving Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Ed Imagine walking through the longest, darkest, most dangerous alleyway in town every night—with wads of cash sticking out of your pockets. You’ll make it through safely many times. Until you don’t. That is the kind of risk you take with hackers each day you don’t have ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ten Signs Your Education Institution Needs CIS Benchmarks Cybersecurity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ten Signs Your Education Institution Needs CIS Benchmarks Cybersecurity   The Research and Education sectors are extremely high achievers—in a dangerous way. Worldwide, they receive the highest volume of cyberattacks. At times, Higher Education has averaged twice as many weekly attacks as other industries, totaling more than 2000 attacks a week. The average cost of ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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