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A Systematic Review of Cybersecurity Risks in Higher Education
- Source :
- Future Internet, Future Internet, Vol 13, Iss 39, p 39 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI, 2021.
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Abstract
- The demands for information security in higher education will continue to increase. Serious data breaches have occurred already and are likely to happen again without proper risk management. This paper applies the Comprehensive Literature Review (CLR) Model to synthesize research within cybersecurity risk by reviewing existing literature of known assets, threat events, threat actors, and vulnerabilities in higher education. The review included published studies from the last twelve years and aims to expand our understanding of cybersecurity’s critical risk areas. The primary finding was that empirical research on cybersecurity risks in higher education is scarce, and there are large gaps in the literature. Despite this issue, our analysis found a high level of agreement regarding cybersecurity issues among the reviewed sources. This paper synthesizes an overview of mission-critical assets, everyday threat events, proposes a generic threat model, and summarizes common cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This report concludes nine strategic cyber risks with descriptions of frequencies from the compiled dataset and consequence descriptions. The results will serve as input for security practitioners in higher education, and the research contains multiple paths for future work. It will serve as a starting point for security researchers in the sector.
- Subjects :
- Higher education
cybersecurity
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer science
0211 other engineering and technologies
Vulnerability
review
02 engineering and technology
Data breach
Computer security
computer.software_genre
Asset (computer security)
Empirical research
university
020204 information systems
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Risk management
risk
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
lcsh:T58.5-58.64
business.industry
lcsh:Information technology
Information security
higher education
Threat model
business
asset
computer
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Future Internet, Future Internet, Vol 13, Iss 39, p 39 (2021)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a8dbb376af4084e31d5bb385977205ad