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Hi everyone. The HECVAT Core Team is seeking volunteers to help with the 2024 update cycle. Our big focus for the year is training and documentation, but we will also need volunteers to help update the tool itself. You can visit this link to sign up as a volunteer (4/3 deadline) and we will invite you ...

Hi, Steve. Thanks for the thought leadership above and providing your input to the solution. Generative AI is certainly a hot topic and we continue to receive feedback throughout the community. We will add your contribution to our resource pool as we look to improve the HECVAT in future iterations. ...

Hello, Cliff. As always in this collaborative effort, we thank you for sharing your concerns. The IT Accessibility CG & HECVAT Core Team continue to work collaboratively to improve the HECVAT suite, especially in ways to assess IT accessibility, including the tools themselves. We have a formal relationship ...

Greetings, HECVAT Users CG! We've published 3.04 versions of both the HECVAT Full and Lite at - https://library.educause.edu/resources/2020/4/higher-education-community-vendor-assessment-toolkit. For the record, it was posted in February but I overlooked sending a message to the HECVAT Users CG ...

Greetings, HECVAT Users CG! The HECVAT CG core team will be active at CPPC '22 in Baltimore and we hope you are able to join us for one of the HECVAT engagements during the conference. For those interested in learning more about HECVAT and engaging with members of the core team, I encourage you to ...

Greetings, Cybersecurity CG! You are invited to join Kyle Earley and I as we discuss challenges that a higher education large facility may face when representing their security posture to potential higher education customers and what the latest HECVAT does to improve information exchange. Registration ...

Hi, Paul. Lite version 3.0.1 has the corrected column titles. The crosswalk content was appropriately updated but the static titles were an oversight on our part. Thanks for asking. Charlie ------------------------------ Charlie Escue Manager, Extended Information Security University Information Security ...

Hi, Paul. Great question. The crosswalk volunteers for HECVAT Lite 3.0 updated existing framework crosswalks to their most recent published (non-draft) versions. ------------------------------ Charlie Escue Manager, Extended Information Security University Information Security Office Indiana University ...

Hi, AmionneJean. What you are describing is one of the "needs improvement" issues in version 2.11. Thank you for bring this up in the new forum. Your workaround sounds similar to what is generally done to counter this issue. Fortunately, and I'm glad to say, the HECVAT tooling sub-group (2021) ...