From: EdScoop
Standards laid out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology come with a Dec. 31 deadline.
By Corinne Lestch
A new set of federal regulations is forcing colleges and universities to tighten their cybersecurity practices, which will require changes in the way colleges manage their data, according to a new report.
Higher education institutions will have to fulfill new contractual obligations to maintain federal grants, research contracts and other transactions in which the institutions receive data from the federal government, according to the report, issued by Deloitte’s Center for Higher Education Excellence and nonprofit EDUCAUSE.
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