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Introduction
The higher education sector plays an important role in the cybersecurity of America. Through its core mission of teaching and learning, higher education is the main source of future leaders, innovators, and the technical workforce. Through research, higher education is the basic source of much of our new knowledge and future technologies. Colleges and universities also operate some of the world's largest collections of computers and high-speed networks. This resource page provides information related to all aspects of cybersecurity for higher education, with an emphasis on strategies, policies, and other tools that will assist institutions of higher education to prevent, detect, and respond to vulnerabilities that threaten college and university computers and networks.
EDUCAUSE is actively involved with this area through the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Higher Education Information Security Council (formerly the Security Task Force).
Information Security Guide: Effective Practices and Solutions for Higher Education
The Information Security Guide: Effective Practices and Solutions for Higher Education is now available in wiki format. This resource provides practical approaches to preventing, detecting, and responding to security problems in a wide range of higher education environments. This online service is designed with colleges and universities in mind, balancing our need for security with the need for an open, collaborative networking environment. Also, because one of the overarching concerns in college and university information technology (IT) departments is a lack of resources, an effort is made to provide low-cost solutions. The target audiences are those responsible for information security in colleges and universities and information technology staff who implement and manage security measures. Recognizing that many institutions have initiated or are in the process of developing IT security programs and policies, an effort is made throughout this resource to present practices that are useful at each stage of the developmental process.
As a community-driven, community-serving project, it is important for this initiative to incorporate experiences and perspectives from many different institutions. To contribute case studies that have been effective in your institution, please contact security-council@educause.edu.
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InCommon will be heavily involved in a $1.8 million grant awarded to Internet2 to build a consistent and robust privacy infrastructure. Partners include Carnegie Mellon, Brown, University of Texas...
Virginia Tech has become the first identity provider to achieve Bronze and Silver certification as part of the InCommon Assurance Program.
The annual EDUCAUSE Conference in Denver will provide an opportunity to explore the range and depth of issues that campuses must consider as they build...
Find a variety of E12 security and privacy-related sessions in Denver or online.
Find resources and see what other campuses are doing this October for NCSAM.
NCSAM article in the latest EDUCAUSE Review offers resources and suggestions for campuses to support security awareness efforts in October.
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Cybersecurity
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Collaboration in a Competitive Environment: Sustaining Success Through Sharing Services
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October 15, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
JISC uses public funds to provide national shared IT services to all the U.K. universities including the U.K.-wide education and research network, SuperJanet, an authentication and authorization sy…
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Implementing a Successful Student Records Authorization Process
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October 29, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
The University of Pittsburgh's federated authorization process streamlined requests for access to sensitive data. This presentation will explain the transition to the process that succeeded in…
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Identity Management: User Awareness Is the Key to a Successful IAM Rollout
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October 25, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
This presentation details a five-phase deployment strategy for identity and access management (IAM). IAM provides a number of capabilities, including authentication management, authorization manage…
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The Access Management Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together
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October 26, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
The University of Washington faces a set of identity and access management challenges shared by many universities. The problems are numerous and familiar. To overcome these challenges, UW has imple…
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IT Security in Higher Education: A Sea Change
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October 11, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference
ECAR data from 2003 and 2005 make it possible to compare the state of IT security over a critical two-year period. The findings from this analysis are striking, revealing an organizational, technol…
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Seminar 04A - Care and Feeding of the Institutional Directory Service: Advanced Issues, Problems, and Solutions PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.
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October 9, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference
Directory architects from the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will share lessons learned while developing and implementing directory services at …
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LDAP and Active Directory: Working Together to Manage Identity
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October 20, 2005
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference
Managing identities across multiple systems and platforms is challenging. Learn how the University of Calgary provides unified user authentication and authorization services across the enterprise v…
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Delivering Shared, Authenticated, Ubiquitously Accessible Storage via WebDAV
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October 19, 2005
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference
Open-standards Web technology allows institutions to provide storage accessible "from any place, at any time, to anyone" (with appropriately authenticated authorization). We will present …
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Leveraging Campus Directories: Lightweight Authorization and Group Management
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October 20, 2004
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2004 Annual Conference
After implementing enterprise directories, institutions quickly discover that directory groups are essential to providing lightweight authorization services and provisioning applications. This sess…
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A Unified Digital Campus: Marshall University's Solution
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January 1, 2003
Marshall University evolved from providing Web-based services requiring separate authentication processes and ongoing data synchronization schemes to a unified digital campus. This presentation ill…
