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2025 Summer Reading List for Educational Leaders

Fisher Phillips on 5/12/2025

Another school year is winding down, and educational leaders perhaps have never been more ready for summer break. From the Trump administration’s significant policy shifts to deeply consequential litigation playing out to...more

Data Breach 101: a Curriculum Spoiler for NC College Students

Fox Rothschild LLP on 10/3/2024

A letter or three per year, alerting of a data breach at a company with which you’ve interacted, is now par for the course. Hackers, and the companies whose data they seek, are engaged in a near-daily volley of attacks and...more

Weaving Cyber Resilience into the Strategic Fabric of Higher Education Institutions (from EdTech Magazine)

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 11/13/2023

“At colleges and universities across the nation, leaders agree that the key to ensuring business continuity and sustainability is cyber resilience.” Why this is important: As highlighted in previous editions of The...more

New York Continues to Crack Down on Poor Data Security Practices

Alston & Bird on 10/10/2023

New York Attorney General Letitia James recently announced two agreements related to data breaches with entities that operate in the education industry. In both instances the entities paid the ransom and received evidence of...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 5, May 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 6/1/2023

Cyber Resilience Programs Falling Short on Preparing Workers for a Crisis- “At two-thirds of organizations, there is a fear that almost all employees, 95%, will not understand how to recover following a cyberattack.” ...more

Data Breach Defense for Educational Institutions

Brooks Pierce on 6/17/2021

The past 15 months have been extremely challenging for every industry, but that is especially true of educational institutions. Every level of education—from local school districts to the largest universities—has had to work...more

[Webinar] Are You Prepared for a Potential Breach? - May 19th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 5/6/2021

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC and Exclamation Labs invite you to a joint webcast to help institutions mitigate cybersecurity issues and identity governance risks. Our panel of technology and legal professionals will discuss: -...more

[Webinar] Data Privacy and Security for Institutions of Higher Education - January 28th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

Bricker Graydon LLP on 1/14/2021

Join Bricker’s Devin Jacobs, Lauren Curto and Jeff Knight for a discussion of the privacy challenges facing institutions today, those we anticipate for tomorrow, and how you can successfully position your campus for both (on...more

Cybersecurity Advisory for K-12 Educational Institutions

Sands Anderson PC on 12/18/2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, recently released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning that cyber...more

Higher Education Institutions and Nonprofit Organizations Face Potential Wave of Lawsuits Over Blackbaud Data Breach

Saul Ewing LLP on 9/23/2020

On September 21, 2020, a putative class action lawsuit was filed against the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Bank Street College of Education, and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in connection with an alleged...more

[Virtual Event] Higher Education Compliance Conference - June 1st - 3rd

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 5/7/2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our Higher Education Compliance Conference will be held virtually. Attendees will enjoy Higher Education compliance sessions and industry updates in an interactive, online experience, plus have...more

ED Requires Higher Education Audits to Review GLBA Data Security Compliance

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 12/20/2019

As discussed in a previous DBR on Data post, the U.S. Department of Education (“ED”) in recent years has repeatedly emphasized the importance of higher education institutions taking all appropriate measures to secure and...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2019 #5

Robinson & Cole LLP on 8/30/2019

It’s a busy time for colleges and universities as the fall semester starts and campuses are bustling with activity. It’s also the perfect time for cyber criminals to create mayhem for institutions of higher education with a...more

Colleges and Universities at Risk for Cyber-Attacks as School Year Starts

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/30/2019

It’s a busy time for colleges and universities as the fall semester starts and campuses are bustling with activity. It’s also the perfect time for cyber criminals to create mayhem for institutions of higher education with a...more

Data Breaches and Educational Institutions

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/19/2019

Five things schools, colleges and universities can do this summer to address data privacy and protect against cybersecurity threats. Consider these five steps during your summer break to address the protection of...more

Cybersecurity 2018 – The Year in Preview: Privacy and Security in Educational Institutions

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 12/13/2017

Editors’ Note: This is the sixth in a multi-part end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity during the coming year. Previous installments include analyses of HIPAA compliance, emerging...more

Religious Institutions Update: November 2017 - Lex Est Sanctio Sancta

Holland & Knight LLP on 11/30/2017

Timely Topics - Serious data breaches have become routine in the United States, yet a recent survey shows that the majority of religious institutions do not have a full-time IT professional, have no system to detect a...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2017 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 11/20/2017

We previously warned readers about the Locky ransomware, which is potent and designed to use phishing emails to lure users to click on links and attachments, including pdfs. Now, researchers at Cylance have discovered...more

Los Angeles Community College Pays Ransomware to Retrieve Data

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/19/2017

On December 30, 2016, the Los Angeles Community College computer network was kidnapped by cyber criminals requesting a ransom for its return. The ransomware encrypted the college’s entire network system, including...more

Colleges and Universities Are Prime Cyberattack Targets: What’s Behind the Threat?

BakerHostetler on 10/30/2015

When it comes to cyberattack targets, many think of retailers and associated credit card transactions or customer information, or perhaps healthcare providers with their ever-increasing storage and transmission of electronic...more

Academic Institutions Are Under Cyber Attack

McCarter & English, LLP on 9/16/2015

Academia’s cyber preparedness (or lack thereof) has received less media attention than that of certain retailers and financial institutions, but nonetheless the cyber risks confronting universities are pervasive and alarming....more

Hackers seek to access intellectual property assets of higher educational institutions

Robinson & Cole LLP on 5/22/2015

College and universities, like many other businesses and organizations, defend against millions of cyberattacks each day. Most recently, Penn State’s College of Engineering discovered a multi-year long cyberattack seeking...more

Academic Institutions Face Increased Threat Of Cyberattacks

Carlton Fields on 7/19/2013

American research universities typically structure their data and digital networks to be as accessible and open as possible to promote the open exchange and sharing of information. ...more

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