Biography
Michael Corn is the cybersecurity advisor for research infrastructure at the National Science Foundation. His areas of interest include research security, AI security, identity management, and organizational resilience. He has been an active speaker and author on security and privacy and has participated in numerous Educause and Internet2 initiatives. He was a member of the Internet2 NAOPag, a past co-chair of the Educause HEISC, a member of the REN-ISAC steering committee and helped found the CMMC AB Academic Advisory Council. Prior to joining NSF he was the CISO at UCSD, the CISO & CPO and Deputy CIO of Brandeis University and the CISO and Chief Privacy and Security Officer of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
EDUCAUSE Publications
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The first iteration of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program (CMMC 1.0) approached cybersecurity as an abstract set of rules that were largely removed from how security is practiced. The changes in CMMC 2.0 seem to be a direct response to the weaknesses of CMMC 1.0.
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John O'Brien, EDUCAUSE CEO and President, talks with Mike Corn, CISO for the University of California San Diego, and Cheryl Washington, CISO, for the University of California Davis, about the increasing relevance of the Chief Information Security Officer role. Originally recorded on June 3, 2021.
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Looking at cybersecurity as a career path can be intimidating, but many working in this field didn't start out with intentions to work in cybersecurity.