Online Meeting Information

This meeting will be held online via Zoom.

Agenda & Take-Aways

News & Updates

Upcoming Events

• CCCApply Pre-Release Webinar - Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 12:00pm

• CCC Technology Center Webinar Series - Wednesday, March 18, 2020 - 12:00pm

• CISOA Conference - Monday, March 1, 2020 - Monterey 

• CACCRAO - Holiday Inn - Sacramento, CA

CCCApply Adoption

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Submitted Application Stats

1. Total number of Submitted Applications from 7/1/2019 to 12/31/2019 - 1,833,950

2. Total number of Submitted International Applications from 7/1/2019 to 12/31/2019 - 1,738

3. Total number of Submitted College Promise Applications from 7/1/2019 to 12/31/2019 - 29,474

4. Total number of Submitted Noncredit Applications from 7/1/2019 to 12/31/2019 - 2,496

5. Total number of logins into MyPath from 7/1/2019 to 12/31/2019 - 346,164

Spam Filter Update

• Update on Spam Issue 

• Current Performance

• Communication coming from CCCTC and Chancellor's Office

  • White Paper & CO Memo

• Monthly College Spam Filter Discussion

• Support for Colleges Finding False Negatives 

Current Performance

Despite the recent uptick in fraud, the most recent numbers from the machine learning data science team is that the CCCApply spam filter service is accurately identifying and filtering 96% of all fraud across all colleges.

From colleges that are diligently managing (tagging) the applications suspended by the model, we find the filter is performing at 99% accuracy. 

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Underlying Causes

(Taken from the CCCApply White Paper (see below))

In order to combat fraudulent applications, it is important to understand the motivation of the bad actors who submit them. Investigation has shown that most of these applicants are seeking to obtain an academic email address, otherwise known as a “.edu” email account, which may be used for financial gain or myriad other benefits, including:

• Sell to other bad actors

• Obtain free software licenses

• Get confirmations of residency

• Use residency to get California IDs

• Potential for serious security attacks

It is widely discussed on hacking forums that most California community colleges generate a .edu email address for a student minutes to hours within receipt of a completed application. Fraudulent applicants receive a fully functioning .edu email account without ever having to register for classes or even attend orientation.

CCCApply Fraudulent Applications White Paper | January 2020

In an effort to reduce the number of incoming fraudulent applications through CCCApply, the CCC Information Security Center has published a two-part white paper exploring the leading causes behind the ongoing fraud craze, and a step-by-step tutorial describing three methods of restricting use of .edu accounts is available to California community colleges.  

• WHITE PAPER: Reducing Fraudulent CCCApply Applications A Guide for California Community Colleges | January 2020

• TUTORIAL: Restricting .edu Email Access A Guide for California Community Colleges | January 2020

What else are we doing about the spam issue?

1. Ongoing Development - Enhancements to the machine-learning spam filter model and user interface with regular model updates 

2. Manual Model Updates (see below) - Supporting colleges by receiving any "false negatives" that the model did not catch but you did. Send them to us and we will update the model with their "fraud status" manually.

3. Monthly Discussions - Third Monday of each month.  Next meeting = March 16 at 3pm

Support:  Send Us Your False Positives

If your college identifies a quantity (20 or more) of fraud applications that were NOT caught and suspended by the spam filter, please send them to us using the instructions below.

CCC MyPath

Update - Currently 46 colleges are actively implementing MyPath  (Seeing great numbers of students interacting with MyPath after submitting CCCApply application - upwards of 85% are engaged. 

Working on tracking statistics and getting reports to deploy in the Report Center

Distributing usage and access instructions for MyPath users

Working on first version of MyPath SIS integration using SuperGlue.  Highly requested feature enhancement.

Orientation Platform:  MyPath to work directly with your SIS data using rules engine - using what you know about the student and the rules (Mike can fix this)

• Fixing and updating registration information

• Focusing on four SIS fields

  • Orientation

  • Ed Plan

  • Admission Status 

  • Enrollment Status

• Also working on the reverse of this integration with these fields > from your SIS to MyPath 

MyPath CISOA - Tuesday, March 3

Interesting in a demo of MyPath?  Contact Mike Caruso, Product Manager, mcaruso@ccctechcenter.org

Roadmap & Development

Goals & Milestones: Addressing Key Concerns