EDUCAUSE Review Articles; Cybersecurity; and Articles, Papers, and Reports

By adopting a unified approach to information security compliance, higher education institutions not only can effectively satisfy the requirements of the growing number of state and federal laws and industry regulations but also can address identified risks and improve the security of their information assets.

This is the entire issue of EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 41, Number 5, September/October, 2006.

The authors provide an overview of this privacy and security focused EDUCAUSE Review issue.

To protect information assets and contribute to the security of critical infrastructures, colleges and universities must empower an individual, such as the Chief Security Officer, or a team with the authority, the resources, and the support needed to effectively maintain an information security program.

In the past three years, higher education institutions have made a number of moves to secure their critical systems and protect their users, resulting in a marked change in the techniques used to combat security threats. Today, continued progress may depend on the development of an enterprise IT security program.

The authors discuss higher education's executives concerns and involvement with cybersecurity matters.

As a society, we need to discuss the ethics, the economics, and the social implications of IT security. Academia has a critical role to play in beginning this discussion and in leading the effort to secure cyberspace.