Michael Corn

Biography

Michael Corn is an executive coach, consultant, and author. He was the cybersecurity advisor for research infrastructure at the National Science Foundation focusing on major facilities. 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

  • Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy | April 2026
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    "Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy" tackles the philosophical, moral, strategic, and organizational quandaries related to higher education cybersecurity, privacy, and data. This month, Mike answers your questions about artificial intelligence–enabled cheating, risk tradeoffs, and audit fatigue.

  • Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy | March 2026
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    "Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy" tackles the philosophical, moral, strategic, and organizational quandaries related to higher education cybersecurity, privacy, and data. This month, Mike answers your questions about cybersecurity strategy, CMMC/CUI-compliant research computing and storage infrastructure, and the unchecked expansion of cybersecurity job responsibilities.

  • Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy | January 2026
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    "Hotline: Cybersecurity and Privacy" tackles the philosophical, moral, strategic, and organizational quandaries related to higher education cybersecurity, privacy, and data. This month, Mike answers your questions about the nature of cybersecurity, the ethical foundations of policy decisions, and the organizational challenges of incident response.

EDUCAUSE Presentations