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Information Security

NOTE: If you believe an incident has or may have occurred, don't try to solve it on your own. Contact the CES Security Operations Center immediately at 801-422-7788 or cessoc@byu.edu.

Your source for improving information security

AWARENESS RESOURCES

CES Security Website (opens in a new tab)

Employee Training (opens in a new tab)

Developer Training (opens in a new tab)

Phish Bowl (opens in a new tab)

Intro Videos (opens in a new tab)

SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER (SOC)

We are a team dedicated to helping BYU and other CES schools prevent, monitor, diagnose, and manage information security threats.
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Security Incident Investigation and Response (opens in a new tab)

Day to day information security incident work. Includes phishing, account compromise, system compromise, and other security issues.
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Security Risk Management (opens in a new tab)

Assessment of systems and applications to discover configuration and processes gaps against campus IT and cybersecurity controls. Risk based reporting of those gaps.
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Penetration Testing (opens in a new tab)

Testing a system, application, or website to find and validate security concerns.
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Training & Communications (opens in a new tab)

Posters, training, fake phishing exercises, articles, and websites to promote security awareness.
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Security Event Monitoring and Development (opens in a new tab)

Working with our log data to create monitoring, dashboards, and alerts for known security issues.
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Threat Hunting (opens in a new tab)

Working with our log data to understand what normal is so that we can recognize the abnormal early in an attack.
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Vulnerability Management (opens in a new tab)

Detection of, tracking, and reporting on unpatched security vunerabilities.
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Information Security Program (opens in a new tab)

Brigham Young University's general approach to protecting nonpublic institutional data in support of university policy.
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ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES

CES Info Security Program & SOC Charter

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BYU Information Security Documents

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BYU Information Technology Standards

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