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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
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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ED Kicks Off Information Management Week with a Data Privacy Panel
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May 7, 2013
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of the Chief Privacy Officer kicked off Information Management Week (May 7-9, 2013) with a keynote panel discussion on "Big Data, Small Data, A…
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Incident Management and Response Checklist
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May 6, 2013
Rather than waiting for a data breach to happen, consider using an incident checklist to establish a campus incident response team, review your institution's readiness, and develop (or a…
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Writing a Data Management Plan
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January 25, 2013
The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries has created a useful page to assist in writing data management plans, which are now requried by funding agencies and are part of the grant applicat…
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2012 CDS Executive Summary Report
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January 24, 2013
This report summarizes results from the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) survey. Using a matched set of 616 CDS 2011 and CDS 2012 participating institutions, this year’s report is a detaile…
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Managing Risk and Compliance by Implementing DLP to Ensure Data Security
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April 16, 2013
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference
Did a university e-mail contain employee PII data? Did we just FTP a file that contains alumni PCI data? In this seminar, you will learn how Saint Louis University increased its ability to prevent …
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What We're Reading, April 2013
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April 25, 2013
"The 3-D Printing Revolution: Dreams Made Real, One Layer at a Time," Rachel Ehrenberg, Science News 183 (5) (March 9, 2013) http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/348429/de…
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Data Privacy Month Awareness Video, 2013
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January 14, 2013
SANS and EDUCAUSE have developed a free privacy awareness video that colleges and universities can use during Data Privacy Month in January, and throughout the year, in their privacy educ…
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A Model for Today: Partnering with Industry to Enhance Institutional Information Security Capabilities
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April 16, 2013
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference
Many academic organizations are facing the same problems: an aging decentralized computing infrastructure, growing use of mobile devices, increasing use of network resources, and ever-present exter…
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Administration of Data Loss Prevention Services in Higher Education
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April 17, 2013
This presentation will examine the challenges, shortcomings, potential solutions, and areas for improvement in deploying and administering a data loss prevention (DLP) tool in a highly distributed …
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Spear Phishing: Novel Techniques for Detection and Prevention
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April 17, 2013
Spear phishing is one of the most serious class of threats that IT security struggles with. While spear phishing attacks are seemingly straightforward, the variability of delivery and infection of …
