Podcasts and Cybersecurity

EDUCAUSE Now is a monthly podcast, focusing on the intelligent use of information technology in higher education. Each episode features a variety of stories, interviews, and views that relate to IT in higher education.  Let us know what you would like to hear at podcast@educause.edu.

Subscribe to EDUCAUSE NOW RSS feed

This episode of EDUCAUSE Now features:

This 40 minute podcast features a keynote address by Rebecca Whitener, Former Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management and Chief Risk Officer at EDS. Her speech, "Addressing Complex Security Threats Through Risk Management," was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Security Conference in Arlington, Virginia.

In this session, we address the current cybersecurity issues that are challenging higher education leaders today as they try to stay on top of the risks associated with attacks on information systems from internal and external sources. Emerging enterprise risk management (ERM) methodologies are examined as a source of guidance for creating an effective risk-based approach for managing current and future threats.

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.

This 36-minute podcast recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference features Kenneth C. Green, Founding Director, The Campus Computing Project speaking on "The 2007 Campus Computing Survey."

The session abstract:

Begun in 1990, the Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of computing, e-learning, and information technology in American higher education. The session will present the results of the 2007 Campus Computing Survey, including new data on P2P policies, open source deployment, IT security issues, strategic and financial planning for IT, instructional integration of IT, campus IT standards, course management systems, and Web site services.

In this 6-minute podcast, we feature an interview with Howard Muffler, Chief Information Security Office, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He discusses the role of and challenges facing the CISO.

The attached recording provides coverage of a 14 minute interview with BT Counterpane's Bruce Schneier. Listen in as he shares some insightful words about privacy along with interesting commentary about ethics, cybersecurity and blogging. Don't forget the video (or audio) of his session in Seattle too.

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.

This 11 minute podcast features a preview of the Policy and Security issues and sessions at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference with insights from Mark Luker, Vice President of EDUCAUSE and head of the EDUCAUSE office of government relations and policy analysis in Washington, DC; Rodney Petersen, Government Relations Officer with EDUCAUSE and Coordinator of the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force; and Steve Worona, Director of Policy and Networking Programs at EDUCAUSE and host of the EDUCAUSE Live! Webcast series.

Some helpful links for those attending the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference in Seattle:

In this hour and ten minute long podcast from the 2007 Seminars on Academic Computing, we hear from Fred H. Cate, Distinguished Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, with a speech entitled, Privacy and Security in Higher Education: Filling the Policy Vacuum .

Closing Keynote at the Security Professionals Conference 2007 in Denver, Colorado. A speech entitled “Influencing the Future of Security in Your Organization” by Pamela Fusco, who has accumulated over 20 years of substantial experience as an Information Security and Risk Management Professional. Her extensive background and expertise expand globally encompassing numerous facets of enterprise security inclusive of logical, physical, personal, facilities, systems, networks, wireless, compliance and auditing, risk management and forensic investigations. She is currently Executive Vice President of Security Solutions for Fishnet Security. This speech has a runtime of approximately 52 minutes.