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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
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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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Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Security Management
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The Business of Identity Management
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March 21, 2006
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2006
Identity management is often seen as a technological infrastructure that supports portals or reduces logins required for central systems. Emerging trends, however, point to opportunities to leverag…
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Disaster Recovery Network Design: The Small College Version
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March 14, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2006
Building a network infrastructure enhanced for disaster recovery is not rocket science, requiring a small army of network engineers. Learn how one small college converted a typical star topology ne…
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RINGS Open Source Device Registration and Security
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March 14, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2006
RINGS provides a complete open source system that scales to the entire campus. This system includes layered security, DHCP services, device registration, account management, security notifications,…
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NetReg: Virus Killer? Spam Stopper?
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March 15, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2006
The NetReg initiative at Carthage has reduced network outages due to virus-related traffic by almost 80 percent in the past year. Come see how we have used NetReg to retain our sanity during the he…
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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…
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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…
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TUid: There's Safety in Numbers
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January 11, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2006
Temple University (TU) initiated the TUid project to eliminate the use of the Social Security number as the primary identifier to better protect individuals' privacy. This session will describ…
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Quickly Establishing a Workable IT Security Program
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January 10, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2006
Establishing a security program while being pressured by various law mandates and increasing cyberattacks is a challenge for many universities today. Virginia Commonwealth University has formed a w…
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Mirapoint, An EDUCAUSE Silver Partner - Strategies for a Secure University Messaging Infrastructure
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January 11, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2006
Mirapoint is a leader in solutions for message networks used by service provider, enterprise, education, and government institutions. Customers use Mirapoint solutions, including the RazorGate e-ma…
