Temporary Internet Outage on All U-M Campuses
Temporary Internet Outage on All U-M Campuses
University of Michigan is one of the top universities of the world, a diverse public institution of higher learning, fostering excellence in research. U-M provides outstanding undergraduate, graduate and professional education, serving the local, regional, national and international communities.
On the eve of classes starting for the fall term, the University of Michigan has decided to cut the internet connection of all campuses.
The University of Michigan has more than 30,000 students and has a very large hospital with over 550 beds on its main hospital campus.
It will be interesting to see what prompted the securing of the network. Was this just focused at the hospital, students, or both? Only time will tell.
Sunday afternoon, after careful evaluation of a significant security concern, we made the intentional decision to sever our ties to the internet.
I feel like most big announcements like this end up being Ransomware. Cutting off from the wider internet feels like a weird move to defend/mitigate that? Unless it's to reduce exfiltration?
If enough university hardware was compromised, it could be used combined with their massive bandwidth to springboard into all kinds of attacks.
I hope they are transparent about the reasons for this outage after they have resolved the issue(s)