Security News > 2020 > May > COVID-19: How universities made the pivot to e-learning
TechRepublic's Karen Roby talks with Dr. Nancy Schreiber, provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Irving Bruckstein, CIO, of Salve Regina University in Rhode Island, about the process of switching to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and the security concerns that come with students learning from home.
For synchronous learning, we transitioned our video conferencing tool, which is a very secure and highly scalable tool from Cisco, Webex, to use for synchronous learning.
Irving Bruckstein: We're very fortunate that we have a very robust cybersecurity defense as well as incident response plan here.
As we've transitioned now to people working from home, they don't necessarily have the benefit of a very tightly configured machine that they would get if they were using a university computer.
Because the cyber criminals are getting very sophisticated in using automated tools to attack, having a tool like Darktrace is the only way you can counter that.