EDUCAUSE | Podcasts and Security Planning

Podcast: The FTC as an Educational Partner in Improving Data Security and Privacy

gbayne — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:40:38 -0500

This 38 minute podcast features a keynote address by Mary Beth Richards, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection for the Federal Trade Commission. Her speech, "The FTC as an Educational Partner in Improving Data Security and Privacy," was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Policy Conference in Arlington, Virgina.

The Federal Trade Commission deals with issues that touch the economic lives of most Americans. The current portfolio includes protecting consumers in the areas of data security and privacy, identity theft, Social Security number misuse, identity management, spam, maintaining the National Do Not Call Registry, and other IT issues of interest to colleges and universities. The FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, although a regulator of businesses, is also an educator: it seeks to educate consumers and provide businesses and other organizations with the information they need to comply with the rules of the road and to provide consumers with the necessary tools to engage in commerce intelligently. This session highlights information policy issues the FTC is addressing and educational resources institutions of higher education can leverage to improve student, faculty, and staff awareness of data security and privacy risks.

EDUCAUSE Live! Podcast: What Price Insularity? Reflections About Computer Security Failings.

gbayne — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:27:05 -0600

In this EDUCAUSE Live! podcast, join host, Steve Worona, for the topic "What Price Insularity? Reflections About Computer Security Failings". Steve's guest is Fred Schneider, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.

Presentation slides for this audio can be found here.

Why is it risky for technologists to ignore the nontechnical context where their systems will be deployed? Furthermore, what is the risk when policymakers ignore the limits and potential of technology? How can we structure dialogue between technologists and policymakers to address security failings—to revisit identity theft, electronic voting machines, digital rights management, and network neutrality? Fred Schneider, editor of the National Research Council study Trust in Cyberspace and longtime researcher on what makes computer systems secure, considers these and other questions.

E07 Podcast: An Interview with Cedric Bennett - Security Concerns and Risk Management

gbayne — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:14:03 -0500

In this fifteen minute podcast, we feature an interview with Cedric Bennett, Emeritus Director for Information Security Services at Stanford University. Mr. Bennett also serves on the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force. We interviewed him at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, where he was presenting a session entitled, "Stop, Drop, and Roll: Prevent and Douse Cyber Incidents".

E07 Podcast: Bruce Schneier on Information Security: Ten Trends

gbayne — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:35:49 -0500

In this 43 minute podcast, we feature a keynote speech by Bruce Schneier, author and Chief Technology Officer for BT Counterpane, Inc. This speech was delivered at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington on October 26th, 2007. It is entitled "Bruce Schneier on Information Security: Ten Trends".

Surveying current trends in information security, it’s clear that a myriad of forces are at work. But fundamentally, security is all about economics: both attacker and defender are trying to maximize the return on their investments. Economics can both explain why security fails so often and offer new solutions for its success. For example, often the people who could protect a system are not those who suffer the costs of failure. Changing these economic incentives will do more to improve security than will more technology.

2007 Enterprise Conference: The Adaptable University

gbayne — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:20:48 -0500

This podcast features a keynote address from the 2007 Enterprise Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Our speaker is H. David Lambert, Vice President for Information Services and Chief Information Officer at Georgetown University. His speech is titled “The Adaptable University” and runs approximately 53 minutes.

Institutions of higher education have become increasingly concerned about their ability to maintain critical services to faculty, students, and staff in the event of a major disruption. As we build or buy new information systems, enhance new facilities, and design new programs, we must be concerned with business continuity and creating resilient, adaptable institutions that consider academic sustainability in every aspect of the enterprise.

EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: Ensure IT Security

Carie417 — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:27:26 -0500

In this 35-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Marina Arseniev, Josh Drummon, and Katya Sadovsky in a session entitled Ensure IT's Quality, Ensure IT's Security, or Throw it Out! They demonstrate and explain common Web application hacks such as URL rewriting, impersonation, SQL injection, and defense techniques and countermeasures that you can implement today.

EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: Implementing an IT Security Plan

Carie417 — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:32:38 -0500

In this 39-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'lll hear from Gary DeClute and Stefan Wahe in a session entitled Implementing an Information Technology Security Program. They will share how the University of Wisconsin-Madison is implementing a comprehensive information technology security program suitable for both large enterprise systems and diverse departmental systems.

EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: IT Security in Higher Education

Carie417 — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:18:21 -0600

In this 46-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Robert Kvavik and John Voloudakis in a session entitled IT Security in Higher Education: A Sea Change. They will share how ECAR data from 3003 and 2005 reveals an organizational, technological, and behavioral sea change on college campuses when it comes to IT security.

E2005 Podcast: GetConnected!

podcaster — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:14:46 -0600

This 49 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled GetConnected!: What Do You Do When 13,000 Unknown Computers Connect to Your Network in Three Days?