Web Seminars Contributed by EDUCAUSE and Network Vulnerability Assessment

High-speed connections and lots of personal computers make campus networks target-rich environments for malware and botnet recruitment. Without a policy enforcement tool to manage student connections, SUNY Albany has to rely on both user education and a creative use of DNS to reduce and detect compromised machines on our campus. This presentation will examine the social and technical approaches used to accomplish these goals.

The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) study of IT security in higher education portrays an industry that is struggling to secure a culturally open environment against the rising tide of threats posed both from within and without higher education. This session will summarize key survey findings regarding IT security technologies implemented by higher education institutions. It will also introduce a new Effective Security Practices Guide developed by the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force that contains resources on network and host vulnerability assessment, security architecture design, network and host security implementation, virus and intrusion detection, incident handling and response, and encryption and authentication.