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NEWS: Incident Response and Escalation Workshop 2024 Recap

July 9, 2024 All Articles, , ,

UCI Beall Applied Innovation Center - University of California, Irvine photo, Courtesy University of California, Irvine

Incident response is aimed at effectively managing and mitigating the impact of a cybersecurity incident on an organization’s information systems and people. When an incident occurs, the goal is to minimize damage, contain the incident, eradicate the threat and restore…
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NEWS: President Drake shares new UC Health guidelines for the responsible use of health data

June 26, 2024 All Articles, , ,

President Michael V Drake Portrait

UC Health release data governance guidelines

On May 1, 2024, President Michael V. Drake, MD issued new health data governance guidelines, part of the 2024 UC Health Data Governance Task Force Report. The Report provided specific recommendations on how…
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INTERVIEW: Tina Austin, UCLA lecturer: classroom innovations using generative AI

June 26, 2024 All Articles, , , , ,

Tina Austin, UCLA lecturer, "I work to ensure my students are educated users of AI, asking touch questions before deciding to use it"

UC Tech News had the opportunity to interview Tina Austin, Regenerative Medicine and Ethics lecturer, UCLA, on cutting edge techniques she has developed using AI for the classroom. She pointed out that the field is advancing so quickly that the…
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NEWS: Damian Luna Joins UC Office of the President to Develop Security Risk Assessment Unit

June 25, 2024 All Articles, , , , ,

Damian Luna, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, Cyber Risk Assessment Unit Manager

According to the 2023 IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45M. This is one reason companies and organizations perform regular security risk assessments, which typically involve identifying, assessing, and…
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NEWS: University of California at the cybersecurity RSA Conference 2024

June 7, 2024 All Articles, , ,

2 attendees of RSA conference

Over 41,000 attendees – including 650 speakers across 425 sessions and 600 exhibitors – gathered at the RSA Conference (RSAC) 2024 on May 6-9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This was RSA Conference’s 33rd annual event.   The RSA…
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