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The Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) develops toolkits and other resources on various security issues, several of which deal with data security.
- Cloud Data Storage Solutions: Dropbox Security & Privacy Considerations
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Yale University Data Breach Containment Procedure
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January 1, 2006
Disclosure Notification Flow Chart for the Yale University Data Breach Containment Procedure. Disclosure Notification Flow Chart for the Yale Universit…
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Yale University & FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) Requirements
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March 18, 2010
The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (44 U.S.C. § 3541) is a United States federal law enacted as Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-347, 116 Stat. 2899). FIS…
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Xythos Software, Inc., An EDUCAUSE Bronze Partner - Tackling the Challenge of Content Management In A Distributed Environment
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October 12, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference
Pepperdine University, the University of San Francisco, and the University of Memphis will each discuss the challenges of managing and sharing content across distributed campus environments. Learn …
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Writing a Data Management Plan
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January 25, 2013
The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries has created a useful page to assist in writing data management plans, which are now requried by funding agencies and are part of the grant applicat…
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Worried About Hackers? Buy Some Insurance
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January 13, 2006
A rash of data breaches has more colleges seeking new coverage for the liabilities that follow Dennis A. Trinkle has been the chief information officer of Valparaiso University for only three …
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Wireless Raises Security Concern
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January 1, 2005
As the number of computers on college campuses rises, and as IT becomes increasingly rooted in campus activities, higher education officials find themselves facing expanding numbers and kinds of th…
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Why File Sharing Networks Are Dangerous
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September 10, 2007
In this paper the authors analyze P2P security issues, establishing vulnerabilities that software clients represent. The authors go on to present experimental evidence of the risk through honeyp…
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Why Can't We Protect Our Data?
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January 1, 2006
© 2006 Steve Schuster. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/…
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Why Banks View Campuses as High Risk Customers
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March 11, 2007
While PCI DSS applies to every organization that accepts payment cards, many education institutions have been slow to achieve campus-wide compliance. The situation is particularly unfortunate sin…
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Why 'Anonymous' Data Sometimes Isn't
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December 13, 2007
"Last year, Netflix published 10 million movie rankings by 500,000 customers, as part of a challenge for people to come up with better recommendation systems than the one the company was usi…
