How Nervous Should Your Cybersecurity Team Be When the Gen-Z Population Joins the Workforce over the Next Few Years?

UD’s Center for Cybersecurity & Data Intelligence did a small study in March 2018 that explored how the different generations encounter cybersecurity awareness and practices. A key group that we analyzed was Generation Z (Gen-Z). these are the kids now in high school that will soon be entering college and the broader workforce. Our study applied our Cyber-Mindfulness model to our analysis of the various generations - from Baby Boomers & Gen X-ers to Millennials and Gen Z. Using both our original data and existing data sources, we were able to craft descriptive profiles of the generational differences with regard to cybersecurity attitudes and behaviors. It is really interesting to see the differences in generations and how these Gen-Z students are going to bring a very disruptive set of expectations and new behaviors to both college and career

The Diffusion of Innovations: A Review and Explication of Central Concepts

The study of the diffusion of innovations attempts to understand how new things or ideas, after a period of time, become widely adopted throughout a group or society. Everett Rogers (1983), one of the pioneers in this area of research, sees the diffusion process as essential to understanding social change. Diffusion, as Rogers sees it, is essentially a communication activity. Accordingly, social change consists of the introduction of something new - invention, followed by the process of diffusing the invention - this is done through all forms of communication, and finally the process ends with some type of consequence, or effect. The largest body of research in this area focuses on the adoption of new farming methods. The need to expand crop yields for a growing world population has been a primary goal of many nations. At the same time, farmers work their fields with numerous threats to their livelihood - bad weather, disease, and drought - they are not likely to add to that risk by going with new or unproven ideas. However, they have adopted new ideas over time, so studying the process and in turn, speeding-up the channels in that process, has proved to be quite successful

Planning for Technology-Enhanced Learning on Residential Campuses

While many institutions are feverishly designing and assembling distance-learning courses for delivery of off-site degree programs, even more are wondering how best to create and execute technology plans for their residential campuses. Planning and implementing a sustainable infrastructure requires a widely shared vision that speaks directly to your mission, plenty or money and strong leadership that ranges from student ranks up through your board of trustees

Is Your Organization Cyber-Mindful?

Let’s face it, cybersecurity isn’t going to get any easier in 2018. As long as there is a financial or geo-political incentive, the threats will keep coming and the level of exploit sophistication will keep rising. Winning this battle truly requires a change in our approach. If you have been scanning the popular media or reading our professional publications, you’ll notice that the attack vectors are shifting from technical exploits to human vulnerabilities. Like most businesses, even the bad guys are striving to be more efficient, and it is very cost-effective to socially-engineer a way into your system rather than deploying a technical exploit. Thus, in addition to maintaining our technical vigilance, we now must strengthen our cybersecurity awareness training just to keep up with the bad guys. Cybersecurity “human factors” is an area that many organizations are not fully prepared to do effectively

Leading and Aligning IT Innovations in Higher Education

Featuring chief technology and chief information officers representing some of the top companies in the nation, this book provides best practices for balancing day-to-day operations with major system overhauls, as well as reorganizing and realigning relationships with other business units to seamlessly maximize performance. In today\u27s turbulent economy, these authors outline how to make a tangible impact on cost-cutting efforts by locating technology\u27s low-hanging fruit, leveraging IT innovation, and budgeting for upgrades in advance

Embracing the Hybrid Model: Working at the Intersections of Virtual and Physical Learning Spaces

The creation of new learning environments should embrace both virtual and real spaces. This chapter explores options for integrating these two modes of learning and offers e-learning and learning environment integration and design implications