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NEWS: Spotlight on UC Security Leaders – Excerpt From the 2024 Cyber Risk Program Annual Report

April Sather and Allison Henry, ORBIES finalists

This story, and associated stories, appear in the 2024 Cyber Risk Program Annual Report. Read the report in its entirety here: https://security.ucop.edu/files/documents/2024-annual-report.pdf In the recently published Cyber Risk Program Annual Report, we spotlighted two UC security leaders…
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NEWS: Driving Innovation: Cybersecurity Enhancements Across UC

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A version of this story, and associated stories, appear in the 2024 Cyber Risk Program Annual Report. Read the report in its entirety here: https://security.ucop.edu/files/documents/2024-annual-report.pdf

Improving UC’s security posture

As cybersecurity threats become increasingly sophisticated, our…
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NEWS: 2024 Cyber Risk Program Annual Report: Showcasing the Innovators, Tools, and Strategies Securing UC

2024 Cyber Risk Program Annual Report

The newly published 2024 Cyber Risk Program Annual Report highlights the initiatives, people, services and tools that manage and reduce cyber risk at every UC campus, health center, and lab.  

Highlighting UC stories and successes 

The…
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EVENT: Save the Date! 2025 UC Cyber Security Summit Takes Place August 20 at UCLA

2024 Cyber Security Summit Speaker Laz

Save the date for the 16th UC Cyber Security Summit – held at UCLA on August 20, 2025. Registration opens in June. The summit brings together people from across the university and beyond to discuss and…
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EVENT: Responsible AI and machine learning, evolving cybersecurity trends among topics at 2024 UC Cyber Security Summit Oct. 9  

Speaker images in circles with copy to Register for the Cyber Security Summit

This year, on October 9th, stakeholders and thought leaders from across UC will be gathering in the Pacific Ballroom at the UCI Student Center for the 15th UC Cyber Security Summit. Topics this year will include: trends in the evolving…
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for stories – 2024 UC Cyber Risk Program Annual Report

Person holding Cyber Risk Program Annual Reports

How do you tell the story of something that didn’t happen?   That is one of the challenges of telling the stories around cyber-security. Often the story is about what didn’t happen. There are many stories like this that originate…
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NEWS: Incident Response and Escalation Workshop 2024 Recap

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: Damian Luna Joins UC Office of the President to Develop Security Risk Assessment Unit

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: UC Santa Barbara Leads $20M AI Cybersecurity Initiative

Robot image from 2023 cyberrisk program annual report

UC Santa Barbara is leading a $20 million research institute for next-level AI-powered cybersecurity. This groundbreaking project, Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation (ACTION), is an effort to bring continuous learning and reasoning of AI to security threats. The project…
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