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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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Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Cybersecurity
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A Model for Today: Partnering with Industry to Enhance Institutional Information Security Capabilities
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April 16, 2013
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference
Many academic organizations are facing the same problems: an aging decentralized computing infrastructure, growing use of mobile devices, increasing use of network resources, and ever-present exter…
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Spear Phishing: Novel Techniques for Detection and Prevention
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April 17, 2013
Spear phishing is one of the most serious class of threats that IT security struggles with. While spear phishing attacks are seemingly straightforward, the variability of delivery and infection of …
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Creating an IT Security Baseline
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April 16, 2013
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference
The UW–Madison Office of Campus Information Security has worked with the campus community to develop a baseline information systems security standard that's intended to help departments on c…
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Proven Strategies for Web Application Security
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April 16, 2013
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference
Web application security is the Sisyphean task facing institutions of all sizes. Approaching web application security is an extremely daunting task. University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts…
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Cybercrime Threats: How Criminals Bypass Security Measures to Steal Your Sensitive Data and Money and Ruin Your Reputation
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May 16, 2012
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2012
Data breaches and credential/PII theft incidents are becoming more prevalent, and recent red flag rules require heightened data security procedures. Meanwhile, BYOD, social media proliferation, and…
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Tools and Methods for Managing Snort Sensors in Distributed Environments
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May 16, 2012
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2012
Intrusion Detection Systems are a valuable component of a security monitoring program; however, they can be expensive to operate, both in terms of equipment/licensing costs and person hours. By mak…
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Tools, Techniques, and Practices: Lightning Round
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May 16, 2012
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2012
Discover the tools, techniques, and practices that are already working in higher education and how you can adapt these at your institutions. Georgia Tech—Fighting Backlinks: Identifying and …
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DNS Sinkholing to Reduce Network Compromises
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May 16, 2012
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2012
Large university networks are often decentralized as a result of organic growth and federation between schools. These environments therefore tend to lack centralized network security controls, whic…
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Campus-Wide Vulnerability Scanning
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May 16, 2012
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2012
Scanning a campus network for vulnerabilities and managing the results can be a tedious task. Even a moderately sized network produces too much information to process manually or without a logical …
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Seminar 01P - How Tokenization and Point-to-Point Encryption Can Reduce Your School's PCI Scope (or Not)
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May 15, 2012
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2012
Two emerging technologies have the potential to reduce campus merchants' PCI scope while also reducing the risk of a damaging data breach: tokenization, the process whereby payment card data a…
