Network Vulnerability Assessment

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Network Vulnerability Assessment

Systemic Barriers to IT Security

October 21, 2004 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2004 Annual Conference

The University of Texas System chancellor's security initiative required the 15 academic and health institutions to evaluate IT security, both centrally and in all departments. A security grou…

The Building Blocks for Security at Emory University

January 1, 2004

This presentation will discuss how Emory went from limited application-based security to enterprise-wide security, implementing a security awareness plan, firewalls, virus scanning, intrusion detec…

Protecting University Networks Using Automated Scanning

January 1, 2004

This presentation will describe how to extend an existing open source system to preemptively scan untrusted hosts to determine patch level before granting general network access, with a specific fo…

Vulnerability Database Opens

January 1, 2004

The Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB), the work of a group of security industry volunteers, is an independent database aimed at logging all security vulnerabilities on the Internet. It has…

Balancing the Need for Security and Open, Collaborative Networking

January 1, 2004

The EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) study of IT security in higher education portrays an industry that is struggling to secure a culturally open environment against the rising ti…

Best Practices for Securing Your IT Resources

January 1, 2003

Indiana University's Best Practices for IT security. Includes information on doing computer scans to encrypting sensitive data. Indiana Universit…