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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

Updated October 2012

Latest News

Five Pilot Projects Receive Grants to Promote Online Security and Privacy

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 First to Achieve Bronze and Silver Assurance

Virginia Tech has become the first identity provider to achieve Bronze and Silver certification as part of the InCommon Assurance Program.

Recommended IAM Sessions at EDUCAUSE 2012

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...

Recommended Security & Privacy Sessions at EDUCAUSE 2012

Find a variety of E12 security and privacy-related sessions in Denver or online.

Policy Matters NCSAM Article (Sep/Oct 2012)

NCSAM article in the latest EDUCAUSE Review offers resources and suggestions for campuses to support security awareness efforts in October.

The Future of Federated Identity: Or, Whither SAML?

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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HathiTrust: The Collection and Its Uses: May 6, 2013

John Wilkin and Sigrid Anderson Cordell provide an overview of HathiTrust and will discuss some uses of the materials in the repository. HathiTrust is the world's largest research libr…
Higher Education in the Ultra-Connected Age: April 25, 2013

New forms of scholarship, new educational pathways , and new interconnections and dependencies characterize the digitally rich landscape of higher education today. We are living and workin…
The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow: March 27, 2013

Wondering what’s new in mobiles, electronic books, learning analytics , and other emerging technology areas? Join Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative as t…
The PressForward Project and Scholarly Communication on the Open Web: February 21, 2013

A healthy ecosystem for scholarly communication requires a continuum from independently distributed work to postpublication peer review. With funding from the Sloan Foundation, the Roy Rosenzwe…
Born Digital - and Accessible: January 28, 2013

Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Larry Goldberg and Madeleine Rothberg of WGBH NCAM. The di…
From Standardized to Personalized: A Trajectory for Mobile Learning: August 6, 2012

Join the ELI’s Malcolm Brown, director, and Veronica Diaz, associate director, as they moderate this webinar with William Rankin. For almost five centuries, our educational structures and pract…
The Direction of Fair Use for Education: New Law and New Possibilities: July 12, 2012

Copyright and fair use has long been a critical element of innovative technologies. On campus, we steadily create new works and use existing ones—and nearly all of them are automatically pr…
National Status of Data Management: Current Research in Policy and Education: June 21, 2012

This panel features updates from three interrelated projects examining the data management ecosystem to determine requirements and best practices in policy, graduate education, and professional…
DuraCloud: A Community Cloud for Higher Education: February 29, 2012

DuraCloud is an open-source solution for managing and persisting content in the cloud that’s offered as a service by DuraSpace , a nonprofit serving the higher education community. DuraClou…
The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow: March 5, 2012

Wondering what’s new in mobiles, electronic books, learning analytics , and other emerging technology areas? Join Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative as they…