JOHN JAY COLLEGE–New cybersecurity procedures and curriculum changes were among the topics discussed on Feb. 13 as the John Jay College Council held its first meeting of the spring 2025 semester.
The meeting agenda specifically stated plans to incorporate provisions at the college that change cybersecurity operations, responses to cybersecurity attacks, and updates to the college Outlook email system. Altering academic programs at the college was also a priority of discussion at the meeting.
While giving an information technology update, Chief Information Officer Joseph Laub announced a new policy towards information technology and the opening of a new security operations center at the college.
“Because of incidents around the world, many organizations getting broken into and some at the university, the university board has decided to adopt a zero-risk tolerance towards IT,” he said.
“The university [John Jay College] has opened up a new security operations center where they’re watching all of our systems, along with members of my department, and they’ve outsourced that monitoring and that response to a third-party Unit 42 of Palo Alto Networks,” said Laub.
