Georgetown University is hard at work on making improvements to its campus IT infrastructure, as well as developing educational initiatives to inform the campus community of potential hacking and other cyber threats. Also included in the IT overhaul is a proposed move to Canvas as the university’s next online management system.

After a year-long trial period, during which the university tested a number of proctoring options for online exams, the University of South Florida has chosen the Proctorio system for all proctored online exams this semester.

Killeen, Texas’ Central Texas College is using Biometric Signature ID’s biometric identification software, BioSig-ID, to verify some 50,000 students for online courses and boost the overall security of online logins.

Alabama’s Jacksonville State University is investigating a fraudulent website that is illegally exposing protected student information, including student names ID photos, addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, student ID numbers and more. This latest hack comes just a few short weeks after a large breach at the University of Central Florida, where the Social Security numbers and student ID numbers of some 63,000 students, faculty and staff were compromised.

Roughly 63,000 Social Security numbers and ID numbers of former and current UCF students and employees have been compromised in a hack of campus records. The university stresses that no credit card information, financial records, medical records or grades were compromised in the hack, however student and employee ID numbers, first and last names and class credit hour information were all compromised in the attack.

Access control and adjacent applications on campus have been driving smart card adoption in the past, but Allegion’s Jeremy Earles says that now there are other motives, both technological and societal, that will inspire more smart card transitions on campuses nationwide in 2016.

Disaster recovery is a topic that is often overlooked, and planning for the worst-case scenario can be even more rare amongst campus administrators. Dalhousie State’s senior systems administrator, Dave Falldien, urges administrators to not fall victim to being unprepared as he explains the ins and outs of disaster recovery planning that could save your campus.

Harvard University discovered a hack of its system last month that exposed the login credentials for students and university personnel. The university has since posted an FAQ page and the contact info for any students in need of further assistance.

It’s easy to demand the highest security cards and systems, but the reality is that campuses can’t always afford to max out every system across all auxiliaries. There’s a balance that must realized when weighing system upgrades and investments. To better paint the picture, Notre Dame’s director of auxiliary services, Scott Kachmarik talks best practices and striking the crucial balance between security and cost in campus card procurement.

Online coursework is commonplace at universities across the country, with students flocking to the digital classroom in significant numbers. With this trend comes a new wrinkle to academic dishonesty and a new challenge for universities. One of the online course monitoring systems now available is being offered by ProctorU, a company that’s using webcams and keystroke biometrics to verify students’ identities for online coursework, with the hopes of mitigating academic dishonesty and fraud.