EDUCAUSE | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Security Awareness

Training Your Staff to Protect SIS Data

ckeller — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:32:08 -0500

"No matter how robust your firewall, trained faculty and staff are your first line of defense against system breaches."

The Human Element in Information Security

ckeller — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:04:56 -0500

The author discusses the best ways to enforce information security in a university setting.

Create a Winning Strategy for Your Awareness Program

drupal — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:38:43 -0600

"Awareness programs are the cheapest way to prevent costly problems, but the security message can be easy to ignore. CSOs and CISOs share their strategies for spreading the good word."

Industry, others object to data retention

drupal — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:29:02 -0500

Internet providers and telecommunications companies expressed concern on Wednesday about the feasibility of recording Americans' online activities, a proposal that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has recently endorsed.

Incident Response at UT Austin

drupal — Tue, 23 May 2006 10:13:27 -0500

An interview with VP for IT Dan Updegrove. The recent break-in to an administrative database at the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin (TX), discovered April 21, 2006, may have compromised the personal data of a very large number of individuals. Early reports stated there were about 197,000 records in the database. We caught up with VP for IT Dan Updegrove for an update and some of his impressions after the first two weeks of the institution's incident response.

Locking Down Departmental Data

drupal — Tue, 23 May 2006 10:09:52 -0500

As hackers have found their way into computer networks around the country in recent years — putting individuals' personal information at risk of identity theft and embarrassing companies, colleges and other entities — many if not most higher education institutions have significantly tightened their technological security.

Jabber creator launches online identity project

drupal — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:15:43 -0500

MicroID system addresses info-security issues by giving users a way to authoritatively prove that they are the authors of blog postings and Web sites.

Setting the foundation for identity management

drupal — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:19:54 -0500

New Data Center security projects increasingly center on building a strong identity-management base.

Open-source bugs undermine digital signatures

drupal — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:08:29 -0600

A pair of security bugs in cryptography software could allow an attacker to insert content into a digitally signed message or forge signatures on files.

Researchers develop new digital rights technology

drupal — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:03:17 -0600

Researchers at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering have developed a new digital rights management technology that they said will help organizations better protect multimedia content from unauthorized copying and distribution.