Hacking with Hannah

What are ghost students?

Ghost students are malicious actors who use aliases, false or stolen identities to apply to colleges. Their goal is to enroll and obtain ".edu" e-mail addresses and student accounts to gain internal access.

Vulnerability management, cyber intelligence, and security operations are a part of my everyday job. But analyzing and managing identity and access, especially when it comes to hunting down identity-based threats such as ghost students, is one of my main responsibilites here at this institution. I've sifted through my research projects and executive presentations for information I could share publicly. I then fed pieces of my reports and presentations about ghost students to artificial intelligence (AI) to create the following podcast audio.

CLICK HERE: "Ghost Students: The Rise of Fraud in Higher Education"

Above is the link to a podcast created with my written work and generative AI voices (that are eerily human) from Google's NotebookLM.

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