Biography

Ced Bennett has worked in senior management in higher education IT for more than thirty years. As Director of Information Security Services for Stanford University he led a department tasked with building awareness and driving change in individual and organizational behavior with regard to increasing institutional information security. Prior to joining Stanford he held IT leadership positions in the electronics, wholesale/retail, health care, and IT services industries.

Ced is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and seminars. He has been a member of the Leadership Team of the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Higher Education Information Security Council (formerly the Security Task Force) for the past 7 years, and served as program chair for the 2004 Security Professionals Workshop. Among his many contributions to the field, he was instrumental in the creation and direction of the CAUSE Management Institute (now the EDUCAUSE Institute, both the Leadership and Management Programs) and served as a faculty member through 1997. He was also a founding faculty member of the CAUDIT-EDUCAUSE Institute held in Australia serving on the faculty from 1998 to 2001. He was a member of the CAUSE Board of Directors from 1985 through 1989, serving as chairman in 1987.

EDUCAUSE Involvement

Publications

Identity Management in Higher Education, 2011 Report

EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR)

June 2011

Do You Know Where Your Data Are?

EDUCAUSE Quarterly

January 2006

The “Zen” of Risk Assessment

EDUCAUSE Quarterly

January 2005

Scale the Solution to the Problem

EDUCAUSE Quarterly

January 2004

IT Security: What's Our Status Within Higher Education?

EDUCAUSE Annual Conf

January 2003

Student Transactions Via the Web

CUMREC Conf (Archives)

January 1997

Presentations