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		<title>USE CASE: Centralizing and Automating CIS Benchmarks Hardening Across 20+ Community Colleges</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Centralizing and Automating CIS Benchmarks Hardening Across 20+ Community Colleges How VCCS improved CIS Benchmarks alignment from approximately 40% to more than 80% without adding staff See how the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) used ConfigOS MPO to centralize and automate CIS Benchmarks hardening across more than 900 endpoints and 20+ community colleges. By replacing ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Educator’s Guide to CIS Benchmarks Adoption</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[CIS Benchmarks for higher education: how universities standardize hardening across campuses, support GLBA and PCI DSS, and stop configuration drift.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Practical Path to Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Practical Path to Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Education Six Steps to Build More Sustainable Cybersecurity in Higher Education Colleges and universities are balancing growing workloads, increasing technology complexity, staffing challenges, and continued budget pressure. EDUCAUSE has described these conditions as contributing to a “cycle of reactivity,” in which immediate needs consume the time and ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>DATA SHEET: 7 Reasons to Automate CIS Benchmarks in Higher Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[7 Reasons to Automate CIS Benchmarks in Higher Education Higher education institutions must secure complex, distributed environments without adding more manual work to already stretched IT teams. This data sheet explores seven ways CIS Benchmarks automation can help institutions accelerate implementation, reduce repetitive tasks, maintain consistent policies, correct configuration drift, and strengthen cybersecurity across campus ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cybersecurity 101: Creating Higher Standards for Higher Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity 101: Creating Higher Standards for Higher Education (Updated September 2026) The consequences stopped being hypothetical some time ago. In February 2026, a ransomware attack took down the IT systems and electronic health record at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Clinics closed across the state. Roughly 650 surgeries were delayed. Staff worked from paper ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Making The Business Case for CIS Benchmarks Automation in SLED</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Making The Business Case for CIS Benchmarks Automation in SLED (Updated September 2026) The attack pattern against state, local and education organizations has separated from every other sector. For ransomware, Comparitech recorded higher-education attacks rising more than 8 percent in the first half of 2026 against the second half of 2025, even as K-12 attacks ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Six Obstacles to Achieving Cybersecurity Maturity in Higher Ed (Updated September 2026) 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 ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Plona]]></dc:creator>
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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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					<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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		<title>eBook: How to Combat the Cybersecurity Crisis in Higher Education</title>
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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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