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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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Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Security Management
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E10 Session Podcast: Social Media: Understanding the Policy, Privacy, and Legal Issues
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January 3, 2011
College students, faculty, and staff frequently use social media to communicate and share information. This presentation by Baylor University's Information Security Officer, Jon Allen , a…
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EDUCAUSE Now: - #32 - 1) Ira Fuchs, Executive Director of the NGLC 2) National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
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October 19, 2010
This month on EDUCAUSE Now : It's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! To celebrate, we talk with EDUCAUSE Director of Cybersecurity Initiative, Rodney Petersen, about events and resou…
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Session Podcast: Cyberspace — A Matter of National Security
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April 15, 2010
Cyberspace began as the domain of technologists and engineers, with a focus on building circuits, switches, computers, and software that could reliably sustain a new global form of communication.…
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In Conversation: Cloud Computing—Hype or Hope?
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November 19, 2009
"Cloud computing" is the buzzword today. What is reality, and what is merely hype? Does this paradigm offer great promise or extreme peril to the core mission of the academy? Two academ…
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EDUCAUSE Now - #20 - 1) National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2) Mark Askren on Green IT Strategies and Benefits 3) George Strawn: Streamlining the Grant Proposal Process
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October 8, 2009
Join hosts Gerry Bayne and Colleen Luckett for the October edition of EDUCAUSE Now! This month we celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month as we talk with the National Cyber Security Alli…
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E08 Podcast: An Interview with Sheri Thompson, IT Planning and Communications Officer for Louisiana State University
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July 28, 2009
This fourteen minute podcast features an interview with Sheri Thompson , IT Planning and Communications Officer for Louisiana State University. The conversation was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 20…
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Podcast: Practical Experiences of a Chief Security Officer - Edward Amoroso, SVP and Chief Security Officer for AT&T
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May 11, 2009
This fifty-eight minute podcast features a keynote address from the 2009 EDUCAUSE & Internet2 Security Professionals Conference. The speech, " Practical Experiences of a Chief Security …
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Podcast: Protecting Privacy in a Sea of Data - Joanne McNabb, Chief of the Office of Privacy Protection for the State of California
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May 11, 2009
This fifty minute podcast features a keynote address from the 2009 EDUCAUSE & Internet2 Security Professionals Conference. The speech, " Protecting Privacy in a Sea of Data ," is …
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CNI Podcast: The MIT Kerberos Consortium
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January 14, 2009
This thirteen minute podcast features an interview with Stephen C. Buckley , Executive Director and Tom Yu , Development Team Leader, both from the MIT Kerberos Consortium . It was recor…
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E08 Podcast: An Interview with Ellen Smout, Manager of Corporate Data Security for the University of Western Ontario
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December 29, 2008
This fifteen minute podcast features an interview with Ellen Smout , Manager of Corporate Data Security for the University of Western Ontario. The conversation was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 200…
