NU faces 'very real' cyber threat: 9.94 million attacks blocked daily

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NU faces 'very real' cyber threat: 9.94 million attacks blocked daily
August 17, 2019
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Computer technology is a wondrous advancement — unless a hacker manages to get your Social Security number and banking information and bleeds your savings account dry.

Leaders of the University of Nebraska system’s information technology department pledged Friday to the Board of Regents to try to protect the data belonging to the university and its users.

“The option of not being on the Internet is not an option,” Blackman said. “The world is there.”
The defense has to be stiff, Blackman said, because the number of attacks on systems is shocking. He said NU’s information security efforts block 9.94 million attacks daily. Many of those are automatically launched by a keystroke from one hacker.

The threat is “very real” for NU, Blackman said, just as it is for other organizations. The bad actors, he said, “are getting better every day.” That means that Blackman and his staffers must get better every day, too.
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