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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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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...
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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.
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.
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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Security Management
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Leverage the Cloud + Leverage In-House + Improve Security = Save Money
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January 11, 2012
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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…
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Building a Self-Audit, Advising, and Community Tool Using WordPress
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March 30, 2011
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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…
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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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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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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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Balancing Security and Privacy in Times of Cyberterror
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March 21, 2007
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2007
Technology gives us the ability to create a surveillance society beyond anything Orwell could have imagined. Our limitations are no longer external but internal: We must choose how much privacy we&…
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Balancing Security and Privacy in Times of Cyberterror
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March 13, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007
Technology gives us the ability to create a surveillance society beyond anything Orwell could have imagined. Our limitations are no longer external but internal: We must choose how much privacy we&…
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From Soup to Nuts: Copyright, Social Networking Technologies, and Electronic Surveillance
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March 14, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007
This session will survey a number of current issues of interest to research libraries such as developments in the digital copyright arena, the present and future of social networking technologies (…
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Balancing Privacy and Security in Times of Cyberterror
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January 18, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2007
Some 230 years ago, Patrick Henry aid, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" Kansas Senator Patrick Roberts recently said, "You have no civil liberties if you're dead." This…
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Risk Assessment 101
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March 13, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2006
Have you examined how to physically protect your data? With federal requirements imposed such as GLBA, FERPA, and HIPAA and threats of identity theft, where do you start? Learn where we began by as…

















