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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">2. The Secret Life of Passwords</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">3. February is Data Privacy Month</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Steven Hurst of AT&T’s Global Customer Security Services will be presenting this month’s national webcast hosted by MS-ISAC. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><a href="http://msisac.cisecurity.org/webcast/2015-02/" class="">Tune in on February 11th (free registration) to hear him speak about</a>:</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">The evolution of how we communicate and what we communicate with.
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">How these changes in technology change the way we need to view the protection of data for consumers and organizations.
</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Expectations for highly probable cyber threats for 2015 and how emerging technologies will impact our risk profiles.
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><a href="http://msisac.cisecurity.org/webcast/2015-02/" class="">Learn more about this webcast or register to attend</a>.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">This rather long but very interesting
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NY Times article</a> discusses what our passwords mean to us. Some people describe them as cryptic poetry, some passwords hold meaningful memories or reminders, some are playful, others dark and serious.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-of-passwords.html" class="">It’s a fascinating read if you have the time</a>.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><a href="http://Educause.edu" class="">Educause.edu</a> is the sponsor of
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Data Privacy Month</a>, a month-long effort to support universities and colleges with raising awareness of data privacy issues.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">The month started off with
<a href="http://staysafeonline.org/data-privacy-day/landing/" class="">Data Privacy Day</a> on January 28th. The day reminds us that we can all do our part to help ensure our community is respectful of privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">View the <a href="http://www.educause.edu/events/educause-live-power-privacy-and-passion-build-something-better" class="">
free webinar recording</a> of “The Power of Privacy and the Passion to Build Something Better,” that was held on January 20th by Michelle Dennedy, vice president and chief privacy officer at McAfee.</div>
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Monique Buchanan<br class="">
IT Security Communications Coordinator<br class="">
Information Systems & Technology (IS&T)<br class="">
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br class="">
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