New IU program monitors cybersecurity threats at other universities

http://fox59.com/2018/03/30/new-iu-program-monitors-cybersecurity-threats-at-other-universities/

Indiana University launched a program called OmniSoc in a bid to prevent the universities from growing cyber-attacks. It will monitor the cyber problems of universities in real time. Technicians will act like security guards, the only difference will be that they will not guard any building but a regular online network. It will be 24 by 7 services present throughout the year. It is already monitoring the network of universities which are part of Big 10.

Executive director Tom Davis said that they want to identify the attacker at the earnest and want to create warnings for all the universities as soon as possible so that they can be prevented from future attacks. Soon this service will be taken over to the whole of the country. This step has been taken with regard to increasing cyber-attacks in the country. Recently Atlanta faced ransomware in which for the significant period of time, the police department was stalled and major information was stolen. Today everyone has laptop and mobile so there is need to prevent students from these cyber-attacks. OmniSoc will act as real-time monitoring station. It will give warning to all the universities in its ambit if any attack is planned by someone.