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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
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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.
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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
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Washington Update: Hot Topics in Federal Law and Regulation
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March 30, 2011
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011
Congress and the federal regulatory agencies continue to focus their attention on technology issues. From open source to social media, from copyright infringement to cybersecurity, new laws and new…
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Creating an Information Security Program: Policy, Process, and Cultural Change
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March 10, 2010
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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…
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Navigating the Web of Regulated Data
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January 14, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2010
In response to the data breach of over 38,000 Social Security numbers in January 2008, Georgetown University Information Services initiated a university-wide data inventory and campaign to address …
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Ferreting Out Sensitive Data
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March 10, 2009
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2009
FERPA, HIPAA, and red flag rules: we're swimming in an alphabet soup of federal regulations related to information privacy and prevention of identity theft. Learn how MIT approached the proble…
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Security Standards: Complexity Is the Enemy of Security
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March 12, 2008
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2008
Everyone wants to know how to "be secure." The myriad higher ed compliance requirements, coupled with a constantly dynamic attacker strategy, have made this question more difficult than e…
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Incident Response from the Ground Up
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March 11, 2008
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2008
Recognizing that an incident response policy is only as good as the procedures that support it, Dartmouth College developed its approach to incident response from the bottom up. This session will h…
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The Privacy Landscape in the Academy - Sponsored by Wimba
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January 17, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2008
Privacy is a concept established by law and often embraced as part of institutional policies, academic values, or professional practice. Innovations in information technologies and changing cultura…
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Seminar 3P - A Blueprint for Handling Sensitive Data: Security, Privacy, and Other Considerations PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee are required to attend this seminar.
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March 19, 2007
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2007
Information security risks at colleges and universities present challenging legal, policy, technical, and operational issues. According to a recent study by the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Researc…
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Making Recarding Make Money and Progress in Security
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March 13, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2006
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will describe how it issued 25,000 new ID cards in a nine-month project, making $2,000,000 in the process. This project also brought together departments across m…
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Properly Securing "Sensitive Information" Across The Campus
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January 12, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2006
Information Technologies began making departments aware of their responsibilities to protect personal information. Surveys indicated that although most departments knew about policies, few were awa…
