Registration is open for the 2021 Winter Workshop: Monday, January 11. The workshop will be held online via CCC ConferZoom web conferencing. Offered twice annually, our full-day workshops are geared toward staff of the California Community Colleges.
Due to a recent rise in ransomware attacks on higher education institutions, the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and the Information Security Center delivered a webinar on the topic on Wednesday, October 28, 2020.
Registration is open for the 2021 Winter Workshop: Monday, January 11. The workshop will be held online via CCC ConferZoom web conferencing. Offered twice annually, our full-day workshops are geared toward staff of the California Community Colleges.
As many California Community College district employees and staff are working remotely, there have been growing concerns around security and privacy when using the video conferencing application Zoom. This guide outlines the major security risks and concerns, and recommend steps that can be taken to remedy them.
A guide from the Information Security Center provides recommended steps and resources to help colleges address security when staff and faculty work remotely with sensitive information. Specific areas of focus include social engineering, home network security, passwords, and software updates.
A white paper from the Information Security Center explores the security needs of the California Community Colleges (CCC), and the resources we provide to help college leaders secure their systems and protect users' information.
Unlimited SSL certificates are available for no charge to California community colleges as part of their membership in the InCommon Federation. InCommon membership for all 116 colleges is being paid for by the CCC Chancellor's Office. Find out how to receive security certificates for your college's web servers.
The CCC Information Security Center works directly with the CCC technology community to understand IS priorities and develop appropriate services, including vulnerability scanning, service monitoring and IS policies.
The California Community Colleges Information Security Center proactively assesses the information security needs of the system, and offers services to CCC campuses designed to maintain the integrity of information systems by:
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