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Resources Developed by the Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC)
- Information Security Governance
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- NIST Recommended Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations (SP 800-53)
- NIST's "An Overview of Issues in Testing Intrusion Detection Systems"
- Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability EvaluationSM (OCTAVE)
- Security Targeting and Analysis of Risks (STAR)
Updated October 2012
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Security Risk Assessment and Analysis
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EDUCAUSE Response to NIST RFI: Developing a Framework to Improve Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
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April 9, 2013
The Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC), hosted by EDUCAUSE and Internet2, is pleased to submit comments to the NIST Request For Information on Developing a Framework to Improve…
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ECPA Reform Update
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February 11, 2013
Recording of the January 29, 2013 call with Greg Nojeim, Senior Counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) reform and its implication…
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House Cmte. Passes Bill on Higher Ed. Data Transparency
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May 16, 2013
On a bipartisan voice vote that took place in record time yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce approved sending the "Improving Postsecondar…
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The Student Unit Record System Returns?
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May 13, 2013
As reported today in Inside Higher Ed , the Wyden-Rubio, and now Warner (D-VA), "Student Right to Know Before You Go Act" has shifted from its early stage concept of knitting…
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SHEEO State Authorization Resources Updated
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May 10, 2013
Sharmila Mann, a senior policy analyst at the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) association, issued the following announcement this week on SHEEO's freshly updated state au…
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Major Higher Ed. Community Developments on State Authorization
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April 23, 2013
The higher education community continues to make significant progress toward addressing the problems of distance education state authorization through the development of a state authorization rec…
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Google Accessibility Improvements
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April 22, 2013
Google started informing its applications user groups today about the accessibility improvements it has made to a range of its applications and software platforms. (Please see below for the quote…
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FCC Telecom Service Provider Accessibility Certification Rules
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April 22, 2013
Our friends at ACUTA (the higher education telecommunications administrators association) have posted an alert to colleges and universities that "charge students, tenants, or others for …
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Fed. Regs. on Student Identity Verification, State Authorization of Distance Ed. Back on the Radar
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April 16, 2013
As reported in today's Inside Higher Ed , the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has announced its intent to modify the rule-making effort it originally proposed last year …
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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…
