CYBERSECURITY

The university's overarching mission is being a world-class teaching and research institution. The goal of the Illinois Security Program is to enable instructors, researchers, staff, and students to achieve this mission while keeping education and research data they work with secure, available, and ensuring its integrity. Being a world class research institution we deal with a vast array of data that makes us a target. Failure to secure this data can lead to costly financial penalties and a loss of the institution's reputation. The Illinois Security Program lessens the cost of security incidents ensuring that the university's resources are focused on the main mission of teaching and research... Simplified. The program's standards and framework are a simplified version of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53 Our standards cover 30 specific risk areas that map back to one or more NIST requirements. NIST was chosen because The Federal..