Network Security and Applications

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Network Security and Applications

Seminar 01A - Our Shared Risk, Our Shared Responsibility: Learning to Prevent Confidential Data Loss PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee are required to attend this seminar.

April 4, 2011 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2011

The information security team at Texas State University has embarked on a strategic initiative to prevent confidential data leakage through a combination of endpoint protection, data loss preventio…

PaIRS/Bayesian IDS: Finding Bad Actors Without Looking at Content

April 5, 2011 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2011

The Columbia PaIRS (point of contact and incident response system) IDS was developed to facilitate the protection of the network from compromised machines, taking into account the totally decentral…

Application Security in the Cloud

April 6, 2011 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2011

Institutions are interested in applications in the cloud due to the "miracle of marginal cost." While offloading maintenance to the cloud provider and the elasticity of applications in th…

Phishing Technical Controls: Beyond Proofpoint

April 5, 2011 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2011

As phish attacks increase in sophistication, a focused technical arsenal to combat them is necessary. We will share an innovative, cost-free preventative control that can identify a phish-related U…

Seminar 02P - Malware Detection and Mitigation with Passive DNS and Blackhole DNS PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee are required to attend this seminar.

April 4, 2011 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2011

Modern malware is now highly reliant on DNS systems to coordinate communications between infected clients and controlling servers. This dependency can be exploited to detect and mitigate infections…

Sensitive Data and Public Systems: Free Tools and Tactical Approaches to Reduce Information Exposure Risk

April 5, 2011 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2011

The growing number of public-facing university systems also leads to increased risk of potential disclosure of sensitive information. This session will explore pragmatic, technical approaches secur…

Seminar 01A - IT Security in Higher Education: Prepare, Prevent, Protect-It's Everyone's Responsibility! PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee are required to attend this seminar.

March 28, 2011 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011

This seminar will be presented by a group of information security experts who will discuss the four basic components of security: prevention, detection, response and recovery. Prevention is the are…

How Secure Is Your Information?

March 30, 2011 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011

This dynamic session will provide a brief overview of the information security standards institutions must comply with in order to provide data security. The program will include some live demonstr…

Gone Phishing at Wayne State University: Protecting Your Inbox with Zimbra

March 16, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2010

Wayne State University has successfully minimized risks associated with phishing attacks by integrating the Zimbra ZCS anti-phishing Zimlet and other techniques with its existing technology to incr…

Using ERP Security to Work Toward a Common Goal

February 23, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE West/Southwest Regional Conference 2011

ERP systems holding confidential student and employee data have become the cornerstone of business processes in higher education. The sheer complexity and heavy integration of these systems into co…