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11/29/2005
Want yet another take on disaster recovery planning? Security columnist Doug Gale posed the following question in the April 2005 issue of CT: 'Why focus on disaster recovery, when effective business continuity management could keep recovery to a minimum? ... People are often confused about the difference between disaster recovery and business continuity management (BCM). Yet, while disaster recovery is the act of recovering from a disaster, BCM is a broader term that includes anticipating and planning for bad things, as well as the actual disaster recovery process. Let's put it this way: After the flood, Noah was practicing disaster recovery; before the flood, he was practicing business continuity management. Basically, business continuity management attempts to answer two questions: a) What can go wrong? And b) How can an institution reasonably prepare to minimize the impact? ... Business continuity management is neither easy nor cheap. But in an increasingly complex world driven by intertwined systems, it is essential.' Read more
Do you have 'roaming scholar' problems?
In his article on 'Federated Network Authentication,' online at O'Reilly Media, Matthew Gast explains: 'Researchers and scholars may hold appointments at multiple institutions or be involved in research teams that draw members from across the country or the world. Frequent visitors require network access. Without a full-time appointment, they may not be eligible for full access at the visited institution, but the hassle of repeatedly provisioning guest accounts is no solution.' Gast relates some of the current buzz about federated network authentication, and provides his own observations: 'To reflect the messy realities of building a federated network, a more generic trust mechanism needs to be developed.' Read more
Wireless Security with 802.1x
In a recent Educause Live! Webcast seminar, Michael Griego helps you understand how the 802.1x standard can authenticate wireless users and provide encryption. Referencing his experiences at the University of Texas-Dallas, Griego provides information about the technology in the higher education context while he sorts out the issues of authentication with 802.1x. Read more
Authentication: The Power of Who
In
the January 2005 issue of CT, senior contributing editor Matt Villano
checks out identity management applications on campus, where next-generation
technologies may be closer than you think: 'In the ever-changing environment
of academic technology, it's one thing to secure your enterprise network,
but entirely another to provision it to control access based on a user's
identity.
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- Amazon To Host Microsoft Solutions in the Cloud
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- CRM Pushing into New Areas of Higher Ed
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- Integrated Collaborative Environment Leverages Web 2.0
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