Harvard CISO shares 5 pearls of IT security wisdom
Chief Information Security Officer Christian Hamer, who is responsible for policy and awareness across Harvard University and whose team handles security operations and incident response, took part on a panel last week at the Campus Technology conference in Boston (Campus Technology’s Rhea Kelly moderated; ESET researcher Lysa Myers was also an expert panelist). Here’s a selection of Hamer’s more notable observations: Most important steps for protecting your network: We think all too often about IT security or information security [as being] about the bits and bytes, and what kind of widget we put on the network or somebody’s computer to protect it… But in general we have populations that want to do the right thing. They’re a lot more aware of the threats now because a lot of them have been in the media quite a bit recently. But they’re just not sure what to do or how to do it. And that’s probably the No. 1 thing that people could double down on. Does your community know what to do? Do they know how to do it? And do they know who to ask if they have trouble understanding that? Mobile security: “There’s a great industry around mobile Continue reading
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