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“It worked in Dev, it works in Dev. Don’t know why it’s not working in production. It’s an Ops problem now.”

Many of us have lived through a failed production deployment of an application at least once. And unfortunately for some, the memories from such failed deployments can haunt for the rest of our lives. But thanks to a relatively old technology (but gaining traction recently), such things could quickly become a thing of the past. Welcome containerization—or as most people know it—Docker containers.

I recently had the privilege to attend the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Workshop 2016, held at the NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland on April 6-7, 2016. One thing caught my attention right away: there were two digital clocks prominently displayed on either side of the auditorium. Both clocks were synchronized, and according to my phone, they were accurate to the second.

You can’t secure and protect devices or data you aren’t even aware of. It’s a simple premise, but one that has become more and more relevant in recent years. It’s challenging enough to just keep up with identifying, managing, and resolving the vulnerabilities you know about, but it’s crucial to be able to detect and identify those unknown and shadow IT assets as well.

You can’t secure and protect devices or data you aren’t even aware of

In November 2015, Tenable released the inaugural Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card, with research conducted by CyberEdge Group. The report tallied responses from more than 500 security professionals from six different countries and across seven industry verticals to assess the overall confidence levels of organizations in detecting and mitigating risk.

Higher education provides a treasure chest of high value in formation for cyberattackers. With everything from Social Security numbers and medical records to financial data and intellectual property within a single institution, it’s imperative that institutions protect critical infrastructures by anticipating, recognizing, and mitigating attacks.

Higher education databases contain some of the most sought after data that attackers are looking to steal