{"id":78070,"date":"2015-09-17T17:54:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T21:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-23T20:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T00:24:58","slug":"hfcc-more-secure-than-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/hfcc-more-secure-than-most\/","title":{"rendered":"HFCC More Secure Than Most"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HFCC<\/a>NYC based security reputation firm SecurityScorecard<\/a>\u00a0just released its 2015 Higher Education report<\/a> (PDF) which has some surprising results. According to ArsTechnica<\/a><\/em> the security startup pegged MIT<\/a> near the bottom of its security posture list. What the Ars<\/em> article did not tell us what universities had excellent security postures.<\/p>\n

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The other surprising result is that Henry Ford Community College<\/a>, in Dearborn, Michigan<\/a> has the 5th best security posture in the SecurityScorecard<\/a> report of 485 colleges and universities.<\/p>\n

\"Henry<\/a><\/p>\n

The report says HFCC<\/a> is among the best securing their network. HFCC scored well in all phases of the online security studied including:<\/p>\n

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  1. Web Application Security,<\/li>\n
  2. Network Security,<\/li>\n
  3. Endpoint Security,<\/li>\n
  4. Hacker Chatter,<\/li>\n
  5. Social Engineering,<\/li>\n
  6. DNS Health,<\/li>\n
  7. IP Reputation,<\/li>\n
  8. Patching Cadence, and<\/li>\n
  9. Password Exposure.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The report explains that each category consists of dozens of security-risk indicators, resulting in a holistic security assessment.<\/p>\n

    rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    As an alumnus and former instructor at HFCC, I say well done!<\/em><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    SecurityScorecard report says HFCC is better at securing its networks than big-time names like MIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3277,1749,1901,2539,2537,19,1913,2541,2540,2481,2538],"class_list":["post-78070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-3277","tag-dearborn","tag-dns","tag-endpoint","tag-hfcc","tag-michigan","tag-network","tag-passwords","tag-patching","tag-social-engineering","tag-web-application"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t