-
Research
and Publications
Current Issue
March/April 2013
EDUCAUSE ReviewPublications
-
Conferences
and Events
Annual Conference
October 15–18, 2013
Save the date!Events for all Levels and Interests
Whether you're looking for a conference to attend face-to-face to connect with peers, or for an online event for team professional development, see what's upcoming.
-
Career
Development
EDUCAUSE Institute
Leadership/Management Programs
Explore MoreCareer Center
Leadership and Management Programs
EDUCAUSE Institute
Advanced Programs
Project Management
Jump Start Your Career Growth
Explore EDUCAUSE professional development opportunities that match your career aspirations and desired level of time investment through our interactive online guide.
-
Focus Areas
and InitiativesLatest Topics
EDUCAUSE organizes its efforts around three IT Focus Areas
Join These Programs If Your Focus Is
-
Connect
and ContributeFind Others
Get on the Higher Ed IT Map
Employees of EDUCAUSE member institutions and organizations are invited to create individual profiles.
-
About
EDUCAUSE
Subscribe
Filter by type
Filter by Presentations
Filter by Library Taxonomy
- Information Technology Management and Leadership [x]
- Security Management [x]
- Cybersecurity (21)
- Policy and Law (9)
- Federal Policy and Law (7)
- Data Security (6)
- Security Implementation (6)
- Security Risk Assessment and Analysis (6)
- Federal Privacy Law (4)
- Risk Management (4)
- Security Planning (4)
- Technology Selection (4)
- Vendor Selection (4)
- Campus Policy and Law (3)
- Cloud Security (3)
- Cloud Services (3)
- Institutional Management (3)
- Networking and Emerging Technologies (3)
- Planning (3)
- Privacy (3)
Information Security Guide: Effective Practices and Solutions for Higher Education
The Information Security Guide: Effective Practices and Solutions for Higher Education is a compendium of information providing guidance on effective approaches to the application of information security at institutions of higher education. It is a key publication of the Higher Education Information Security Council. The guide's content is actively maintained by a large group of volunteers who are information security practitioners at a variety of colleges and universities. The content itself is a rich combination of materials written for the guide, articles written for other publications, presentations from information security conferences, case studies, examples of processes, procedures, and forms used by various institutions, toolkits, hot topics, and references to a wide variety of other materials from EDUCAUSE and other sources. This infographic provides a quick overview of the guide.
Featured Resources of the Information Security Guide include:
- Confidential Data Handling Blueprint
- Data Classification Toolkit
- Data Incident Notification Toolkit
- Data Protection Contractual Language: Common Themes and Examples
- Guidelines for Data De-Identification or Anonymization
- Guidelines for Information Media Sanitization
- Electronic Records Management Toolkit
- Guidelines for Responding to Compulsory Legal Requests for Information
- Hot Topics (e.g., malware, mobile devices, and social networking)
- Information Security Governance
- National Cyber Security Awareness Month Resource Kit
- PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) Resource Page
- Risk Assessment Consultants List, Sample RFPs, and Tools List
- Risk Management Framework
- Security Awareness Quick Start Guide, Detailed Instruction Manual, and Speakers Bureau
- Top Information Security Concerns for Campus Executives and Data Stewards
- Top Information Security Concerns for HR Leaders & Process Participants - Protecting Your HR Assets
- Additional Toolkits
Updated October 2012
Latest News
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...
Virginia Tech has become the first identity provider to achieve Bronze and Silver certification as part of the InCommon Assurance Program.
The annual EDUCAUSE Conference in Denver will provide an opportunity to explore the range and depth of issues that campuses must consider as they build...
Find a variety of E12 security and privacy-related sessions in Denver or online.
NCSAM article in the latest EDUCAUSE Review offers resources and suggestions for campuses to support security awareness efforts in October.
Eve Maler, an expert on emerging identity and security at Forrester Research, discusses the past, present, and future of SAML in this webinar recording.
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Security Management
-
Paper Is Out, Online Form Development Tools Are In
-
March 19, 2013
|
A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
Campus departments are looking to move their paper forms online. Many options exist for cloud no-code online forms development tools. Add this to existing enterprise solutions with online form and …
-
Innovation Showcase
-
March 19, 2013
|
A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
Beyond "Angry Birds": Taking Your iPad to the Next Level Far from being just a media consumption device, the iPad and its integration into both popular and academic culture have led …
-
Leverage the Cloud + Leverage In-House + Improve Security = Save Money
-
January 11, 2012
|
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…
-
The Law and the Cloud: Accountability and Empowerment in the New Computing
-
January 11, 2012
|
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…
-
Building a Self-Audit, Advising, and Community Tool Using WordPress
-
March 30, 2011
|
A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011
Educational Technology used WordPress with the BuddyPress plug-in for rapid development of a self-audit tool for English majors that also implemented some community features via optional sharing of…
-
Proactive Compliance Through Information Systems Risk Management
-
January 12, 2011
|
A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2011
Moving compliance from a reactive approach to a proactive approach does not occur overnight. It is a journey with many opportunities for failure or success. Compliance can be obtained proactively…
-
Creating an Information Security Program: Policy, Process, and Cultural Change
-
March 10, 2010
|
A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010
Complying with state and federal regulations regarding personal information and data breaches is both a challenge and a concern for many universities. This session will review how two different i…
-
Building a Standards-Based Information Security Program
-
March 24, 2009
|
A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2009
Safeguarding IT assets and protecting community members' privacy is an important goal for colleges and universities. IT organizations play an important leadership role as information is increa…
-
Performing Risk Analysis and Testing: Outsource or In-House? A Towson University Case Study
-
January 7, 2009
|
A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009
To ensure that institutional systems are secure and meet payment card industry requirements, managers must perform regular risk tests on various systems across campus. When we lost our security eng…
-
Developing a Risk-Based Information Security Program
-
June 13, 2007
|
A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2007
This session will discuss the importance of developing a comprehensive risk-management-based information security program. The focus will be on the benefits of using ISO standards 17799, 27001, and…
