http://www.csoonline.com/article/2982494/data-protection/mit-scores-worst-in-cybersecurity.html
By Maria Korolov
CSO
Sep 10, 2015
In a cybersecurity survey of 485 large colleges and universities, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in at the bottom of the list.
In a report released today, SecurityScorecard analyzed the educational
institutions based on web application security, network security, endpoint
security, IP reputation, patching, and other security indicators.
SecurityScorecard's chief research officer Alex Heid said they have a
feeling that MIT's low scores were due in part to its cybersecurity
research efforts.
"They do their own malware research," he said. "They run honeypots.
They're running TOR exit nodes."
But that's only part of the story, he added.
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