Today, the U.S. Department of Education, alongside the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and other federal partners issued new guidance in its Safeguarding Academia bulletin to alert U.S. colleges and universities about increasing foreign threats to their research and to arm them with mitigation strategies for addressing these threats.
The joint bulletin and accompanying reference guides provide information about the risk environment on campuses, including steps institutions can take to mitigate dangers associated with foreign talent recruitment programs, overseas research collaborations, espionage activities of foreign intelligence services, and cyber intrusion. In addition to outlining best practices for institutions and individual researchers, the materials encourage institutions to report suspicious activities and concerns to the relevant U.S. authorities.
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