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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...
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Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Cybersecurity
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A Day at the Breach
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March 13, 2012
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012
It's August 10 at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the school is not contemplating how to spend a day at the beach. Instead, they are informing approximately 75,000 individuals asso…
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Connecting InCommon Silver and Research at UW–Milwaukee
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March 26, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2012
UW–Milwaukee is growing its research initiatives. As the initiatives grow, we recognize that federal-granting agencies are working toward a model where the services used to maintain grants employ…
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The 3 Rs of Responding to a Major Data Breach
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March 26, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2012
Responding to a major data breach is an activity that none of us would welcome, yet many feel that having a data breach is not a matter of "if," but "when." In 2011, our campus …
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Living, Learning, Cyberspace: A Program-Wide Blogging Initiative for Virginia Tech's Honors Residential College
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February 15, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting
How can the intimate, engaged experience of small-group learning be a template for a large research university? Virginia Tech's answer: a blogging platform that enables students and professors…
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The Cloud or Bust
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February 14, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting
The advent of cloud computing and the proliferation of mobile devices have sparked the imagination of faculty and students but challenged many of our traditional support structures. This panel will…
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Results of the 2011 Core Data Survey
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October 19, 2011
The EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) is in its ninth year. It has been completely overhauled to expand beyond the original focus on higher education IT costs and staffing. The CDS will now provi…
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Cybersecurity as a Shared Responsibility: Stop, Think, and Connect
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October 4, 2011
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month . In this webinar, representatives from the White House, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Higher Education Information Security Cou…
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Self-Service Identity: Join the Community
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January 12, 2012
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012
The session will introduce participants to the University of Maryland's vision for self-service functions related to identity management and what we have done towards achieving that vision. …
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Leverage the Cloud + Leverage In-House + Improve Security = Save Money
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January 11, 2012
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012
The University of Maryland in Baltimore had to replace its in-house student e-mail system. Our students wanted Google. We had concerns with security as well as compliance requirements such as HIPAA…
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The Law and the Cloud: Accountability and Empowerment in the New Computing
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January 11, 2012
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012
Click-through and shrink-wrap license agreements. Terms of use and privacy disclosures. Data mining, HIPAA, FERPA, e-discovery, FOIA, and intellectual property rights. The cloud and web services ar…
