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Aliens Invade New Mexico: Higher Education and Cyber Security At a Crossroads

By David Furr

By the time you count 8 seconds or read the first section of this article, 150 new devices have been connected to the Internet of Things.  That means 61,500 per hour; 1.5 million per day.  Currently 7.4 billion devices are connected to the IoT, more than humans on the planet.  By 2020, estimates of connected devices range from 26 billion to 75 billion.[1]

The modern student and faculty are inextricably and innocently connected to the IoT.  Their behavior will only exponentially increase the security threat to the educational institution

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