Cornell's New Computer Security E-Book

Cornell University has developed a computer security e-book for faculty and staff that is the cornerstone of their computer security awareness campaigns at Cornell. As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, other universities are invited to use Cornell's computer security book as a resource for the development of their own campus awareness and educational materials.

The book, Computer Security at Cornell: Secure Your Computer On and Off Campus, covers the philosophy/educational aspects of computer security topics that everyone should understand. All of the "how-to" info is linked to the Cornell Security website so it can be updated on the fly as needed.

Cornell also provides print options for the book so that IT professionals, faculty, staff, students, alumni, or guests can print a single chapter at a time and read or share individual chapters with others if they want to know more about a specific topic. The book is long, but the intention was to gather everything into one tidy resource that could be used to develop specific smaller campaigns about awareness issues that are of interest at particular times.

Universities interested in using the resource can download the InDesign document from the Cybersecurity Awareness Resource Library (under Books), along with a READ ME file that describes where Cornell purchased stock images and how your school can purchase the images. The book currently refers to policies specific to Cornell, but universities are welcome to use the InDesign document available at the EDUCAUSE website and change/update the book to meet the needs of your campus, reference your institution's policies, etc.