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HBCU Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) is a trusted community of critical infrastructure owners and operators within the HBCU Ecosystem.
WHO
The HBCU-ISAC TM is a central resource for safeguarding HBCUs against cyber threats and attacks. We are a trusted community of critical infrastructure owners and operators within the HBCU ecosystem. We aim to serve HBCU member institutions through advocacy, actionable information, and promoting cybersecurity operational protection and response.
WHAT
HBCU-ISACTM member institutions will benefit from threat intelligence and other automated data collection and sharing tools to enable informed decisions about threats and events and peer assessment services to improve the institution’s overall security posture.
WHY
HBCUs will face an increasingly complex and interconnected global security environment marked by the growing specter of great power competition and conflict while collective, transnational threats to all nations and actors compete for our attention and finite resources
The 101 accredited Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) serve almost 300,000 students across 19 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
HBCUs have faced underinvestment throughout their more than 180-year history. HBCUs vary in size and academic focus and serve a diverse range of students and communities in urban, rural, and suburban settings. Over the last few fiscal years, the White House and federal agencies have provided opportunities to improve HBCU infrastructure and the capacity to defend their information and data assets.
When a cyberattack or threat of one is imminent, the impact on an HBCU goes beyond losing student and employee personally identifiable information (PII). There can be operational, reputational, and financial impacts and national security and privacy concerns, as some HBCUs are involved in Federal defense contractor research projects.
