Cybersecurity in the Library: Steps You Can Take Now to Make Your Users and Your Institutions Safer

Academic libraries are an essential node of access to campus networks – and, therefore, a target of hackers, pirates, and other bad actors who want access to students’ personal information, licensed content, digitized special collections content, proprietary data, and other contents of your local networks that they see as valuable commodities ripe for financial exploitation or political or ideological manipulation. What can the library do to help prevent this kind of predatory access to campus networks, and why should they play a role in doing so? Join [guest university CISO], Rick Anderson (Brigham Young University) and Gwen Evans (Elsevier), for a panel discussion of these threats and of strategies available to mitigate them. (Anderson and Evans are both charter members of the Scholarly Networks Security Initiative [SNSI], a nonprofit organization dedicated to minimizing threats to campus systems.)