Network Security and Applications

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Network Security and Applications

Encryption

Encryption True The HEISC Technologies, Operations, and…

DNSSEC

DNSSEC True DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) is a set of …

Enterprise Content-Aware DLP Solution Comparison and Select Vendor Profiles

May 14, 2013

This Gartner report covers content-aware data-loss prevention, which has grown up and is on the verge of becoming a standard part of security architecture. A small set of vendors dominate a major…

A Model for Today: Partnering with Industry to Enhance Institutional Information Security Capabilities

April 16, 2013 | 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…

Spear Phishing: Novel Techniques for Detection and Prevention

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 …

Creating an IT Security Baseline

April 16, 2013 | 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…

Proven Strategies for Web Application Security

April 16, 2013 | 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…

Bootstrapping IT Security

March 12, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

This session will cover the history of the Brown Security Round Table, the benefits of this committee, and lessons learned. Come and talk to some of the founding members of this committee to learn …

Data Custodians, It's 11 p.m.: Do You Know Where Your Confidential Data Is?

March 20, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Many campuses find that the proliferation and continued storage of confidential data on desktop and laptop computers to be one of their top security risks. In combination with policy and awareness …

Can Big Data Help Universities Tackle Security, BYOD?

July 31, 2012

Universities have some of the most complex IT infrastructures around, and BYOD is a reality they can't escape. Chief Security Officers at universities are increasingly turning to Big Data an…