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2/3/2006
It’s the smart campus administrators who are learning new data security and privacy tricks from big business and government experts.
12/29/2005
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11/30/2005
So, before Thanksgiving I had told myself that I would read the CIFAC Project report and write about it. A quick glance had told me that it contained useful results from research of computer "incidents" and was probably not yet getting the attention it deserved.
11/29/2005
It’s surprising how many US institutions of higher education do not have a top-flight security plan in place. Remedy that situation now with these best practices from IT and security pros nationwide.
10/26/2005
Common-sense advice on the big-picture security issues college presidents and their administrators should be thinking about now--before they see their institution in the headlines.
10/24/2005
Illegal sharing of music and videos by students garners most of the attention—and the concern—devoted to campus copyright infringement. But adherence to copyright law, particularly in the use of course management systems by faculty and staff, also is critically important.
10/21/2005
On the heels of Katrina, it's time to get a top-flight disaster recovery plan into place. Here's how to catch up.
10/20/2005
Following 9/11, the Campus Computing Project’s (www.campuscomputing.net) annual survey of higher education institutions folded three key questions on disaster recovery planning (DRP) into its laundry list of concerns for IT.
10/20/2005
Students ‘converse’ under the radar during class, and now disabling bot-borne viruses threaten entire campuses.
In late September, the University of Maryland was hit hard by one of the worst computer virus infections to hit higher education in recent memory. What made the outbreak more devastating than usual was the fact that it arrived on the back of an insidious little carrier known as the SDbot, quickly disabling student computers by posing as a friendly AIM message link (“LOL, ha, check this out”) from an IM-ing buddy. Campus CIOs across the country got the news within hours, and shuddered: With the expansion of mobility and converged networks and devices (laptops, PDAs, and cell phones) their work had simultaneously become transcendent and a descent into campus security hell.
10/20/2005
10/11/2005
Disaster planning changes for campus IT in the post-Katrina world.
9/21/2005
Even as everyone engaged by Katrina is still, slowly, realizing the dramatic complexity of the circumstances from that storm, yet another handful of higher education institutions are preparing for a major hit.
9/19/2005
In the days immediately after Hurricane Katrina devastated Gulf Coast cities and towns, I canvassed the area’s higher ed Web sites and hotlines, trying hard to pull my mind away from the human heartbreak and objectively assess the role of technology in the schools’ disaster responsiveness. What I found as I called the hotlines and scanned the Net for the Web sites of those hardest hit, was universal (and understandable) institutional shock, and varying degrees of rudimentary business continuity—where it existed.
8/31/2005
Well, this year it’s not digital viruses hitting higher ed hard, it’s a hurricane – right as the students returned or were about to. It’s nightmarish to imagine your server room under 30 feet of water; or with its interior exposed to wind and rain because a large tree fell on it.
8/25/2005
For three colleges, CDW•G is much more than a security products source-it's an end-to-end solution partner.
8/25/2005
8/22/2005
Sometimes, the biggest threat to security isn’t a mysterious hacker on the Net—it’s the person who just walked by.
7/20/2005
If you want some insight into users knowledge and behavior about spyware and software there's an important white paper you should read.
7/13/2005
The work of the Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) in setting definitions, agreed-upon language that can be used to clearly define the myriad of spyware-type threats, is a promising new step in reducing the problem of unsolicited email.
6/23/2005
IT DEPARTMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION face a number of challenges over the next five years, including aging CIOs, a need for better security, and a coming peak in tuition costs that will crunch budgets even further.
5/25/2005
What does your institution say about the use of “IT resources” for personal gain? Some institutions even encourage students to create and operate businesses from residence halls. Others have language like this: “You may not use university IT resources for personal gain.” That’s a pretty big spread in policies there and I expect that the latter one is breached several times a minute.
4/29/2005
This past week's Educause Western Regional conference in San Francisco offered the broad range of topics you'd expect to find at the annual conference, but gave attendees the advantages of a smaller, more intimate event. We caught up with CT Advisory Board member Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno Thursday morning during a break, to get her reaction after chairing her discussion session, "Data Warehousing and Mining for Data-Driven Decision Making."
4/29/2005
With more campus security breaches reported daily, is this the time to nationally centralize already vulnerable data?
4/26/2005
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