Security/Privacy
- Survey Said ...
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5/10/2007
I look forward each year to the EDUCAUSE annual Current Issues Survey Report. There is always something new and interesting, be it the ways in which the survey instrument itself has been shaped to reflect the association’s view of the field or in the results of the survey.
- Carnegie Mellon To Deploy NeXpose
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5/10/2007
Carnegie Mellon announced plans to deploy vulnerability management software from software developer Rapid7 for systems and networks at the university. The NeXpose software is designed to examine and analyze the cause of any problem.
- U Missouri Server Hack Exposes 22,396 SSNs
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5/9/2007
The University of Missouri has reported that one of its databases was hacked and that the intruder responsible for the breach was able to obtain the names and social security numbers of staff members. This is the second data security breach at the University of Missouri this year.
- Report Outlines Higher Ed Concerns on VoIP
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5/7/2007
A survey by the Association for Communications Professionals in Higher Education concluded that fewer than half of colleges and universities in North America have migrated to voice over IP networks, but many are readying conversions in the next six months to two years.
- Voices from the Sky: The Technology Is the Easy Part
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5/3/2007
So, you go out and purchase a communications system that will alert tens of thousands of people simultaneously in a crisis situation using ... text messages ... e-mail ... loudspeaker systems ... whatever.
- Repeat After Me: When It Happens on Our Campus, We Will Be Ready!
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4/26/2007
One of the consequences of modern communications technology is that we know of so many more bad things that happen. We know about them when we previously would not; we know about them sooner; and we know about them in more detail than ever before.
- Texas A&M Wins National Cyber Defense Competition
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4/26/2007
Texas A&M placed first at second annual National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held in San Antonio, TX. The winning team received an invitation to attend a national security exercise in Washington, DC in 2008.
- Security, QoS at Core of Italian University's Converged Network
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4/19/2007
Italy's University of Milan Bicocca will work with Santa Clara, CA-based Extreme Networks Inc. to upgrade its campus-wide network with a scalable, secure infrastructure that will deliver multimedia communications to staff, faculty, and visitors across multiple campuses.
- Securing Security Dollars
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4/13/2007
It's one of the paradoxes of the technology world: IT security continues to gain visibility as a pressing issue, but the funding for improved data protection doesn’t always flow.
- Once More unto the Breach
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4/13/2007
This month's announcement of a potential data security breach at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) may have come as a shock to the 46,000....
- Microsoft Partners with REN-ISAC for Higher Ed Security
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4/12/2007
Microsoft and the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) have entered into an alliance to expand Microsoft's Security Cooperation Program into higher education. The announcement came yesterday at the Educause/Internet2 Security Professionals Conference 2007 being held in Denver, CO.
- National University of Singapore Deploys Secure Access SSL
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4/12/2007
The National University of Singapore has deployed Secure Access SSL VPN, a security technology from Juniper Networks. The University will use the security platform to establish an electronic examination portal for online testing.
- Texas A&M Demo Adapting Lawful Intercept for VoIP
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4/12/2007
Texas A&M University recently demonstrated how institutions can implement Voice over Internet Protocol communications while complying with federal requirement of Lawful intercept (LI) without expensive adjustments to their current network's infrastructure.
- Michigan State Deploys Security Event Management
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4/11/2007
Michigan State University is deploying a security management system from CrossTec called Activeworx Security Center. The solution will be used in one of the university's principal data centers to compile and manage security-related data from a variety of third-party systems.
- Promisec Spectator Expands Agentless Endpoint Security
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4/11/2007
Security solutions provider Promisec has unveiled a new version of its Promisec Spectator Professional, an endpoint security management suite. The latest version adds support for Windows Vista and includes performance and feature enhancements as well.
- Wren Updates Video Management System
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4/11/2007
Wren has updated its video surveillance software for the Wren Video Management System (VMS) to version 3.0. Wren VMS is a security system designed for educational institutions.
- Microsoft Casts Legal Net on Education Software Smugglers
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4/9/2007
Microsoft filed law suits last week to stop what it charged were smuggling operations that were reselling software intended for students and schools to unsuspecting retail consumers. Microsoft filed nine lawsuits and issued more than 50 cease and desist letters in efforts to shut down the alleged smuggling operations.
- Flagler College To Take Historic Buildings Wireless
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4/9/2007
Flagler College in Florida will deploy a wireless network throughout its campus in an effort to preserve the integrity of the historic buildings on the school's site and to provide centralized security for its wireless users. Alcatel-Lucent will handle the implementation.
- Risk and Responsibility
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4/5/2007
Young people taking risks. Who'd have thought? But the science is there, telling us that a 20-year-old's brain has not yet fully matured, even though the rest of his or her body has.
- Wren Updates Video Management System
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4/5/2007
Wren has updated its video surveillance software for the Wren Video Management System (VMS) to version 3.0. Wren VMS is a security system designed for education institutions.
- CMU Engineering Dean Honored for Global Edu Vision
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4/3/2007
Pradeep Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, was given the "Cyber Education Champion Award" from the Business Software Alliance, an association of software companies.
- Sense & Clickability
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3/29/2007
College student-aged human beings do some pretty stupid and potentially unsafe things. There's nothing new about that observation.
- GTG Releases Secure Disc Standalone
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3/21/2007
Global Technologies Group has released SecureDisc Standalone, a utility for encrypting the contents of CD and DVD media.
- Hamilton Expands Mirage Endpoint Control Implementation
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3/19/2007
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, has expanded use of Mirage Networks' Endpoint Control system across its campus and deployed the company's Mirage Management Server for security.
- Blue Lane Debuts VirtualShield for VMware
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3/15/2007
Blue Lane Technologies has released a new security utility for VMware called VirtualShield. The tool, developed in cooperation with VMware, is designed to provide protection for the VMware Infrastructure 3 platform.
