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The Arizona Office of the Auditor General finds plenty of holes

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2008-06-23 12:28:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...UniversitiesInformation Technology Security The Arizona Daily Star Report Credit Arizona Office of the Auditor General Response From the online sources cited above The Office of the Auditor General has conducted a performance audit of information technology security at Arizona State University (ASU), the University of Arizona (UA), and...
 
Tags: information, information security officer, personal information, information security staffs, confidential information, information security, university information, sensitive information, sensitive
 
 
 
 
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Stolen SunGard laptop affects at least 10 post-secondary schools

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2008-04-21 14:49:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...universities. We help more than 1,600 institutions worldwide strengthen institutional performance by improving constituent services, increasing accountability, and enhancing the education experience SunGard Higher Education has a vision to unify people, process, and technology in an environment that addresses the needs of higher education...
 
Tags: information, personal information, store confidential information, university, university system, data custodians apply, data custodians, information security governance, sungard
 
 
 
 
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Some IPFW students exposed through malware

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2007-11-29 13:26:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...universities have discontinued the use of the numbers except when required by law, the statement said Comfyllama] An excellent best practice. Hopefully there are additional protections in place around the use that is required by law More information about the incident also is available online at
 
Tags: purdue university, university, information, personal information, university department, university fort wayne, computer, vulnerable information, students
 
 
 
 
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Irongeek on Campus

2007-10-04 10:00:18 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Universities and other educational institutions are using my videos in their InfoSec classes. I think this is great, but I'd like to compile a list of such campuses . If your campus uses my videos, please send me an email with the institutions name and a link to their web site. So far Jackson Community College is the only name on the list,...
 
Tags: institutions, jackson community college, educational institutions, infosec classes, web site, videos, campus, list, link
 
 
 
 
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CEP in Laymans Terms: Reuse and Agility

2008-01-18 05:08:20 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...universities We were discussing CEP and our proposed CEP Center of Excellence concept for Software Park. O ne of the topics we touched upon today was CEP in laymans terms. After some brainstorming about CEP,itwe were moved to draw a parallel between the SOA and CEPconcepts of IT agility and reuse Just as SOA is centered around service...
 
Tags: cep, reuse, laymens terms cep, agility, include reuse, cep center, laymans terms, service component reuse, soa concepts
 
 
 
 
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Getting students, faculty to sign up for campus alerts

2008-02-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b1f454 in Network World on Security
 
Although many colleges and universities have been installing or updating their emergency notification systems for students, faculty and staff since last April's shootings at Virginia Tech, technology can't fix one problem: not everyone who's eligible for the emergency alerts wants them
 
Tags: emergency notification systems, faculty, emergency alerts, students, virginia tech, fix, shootings, staff, eligible
 
 
 
 
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Ignoring threat assessments... interesting approach to information security

2008-02-26 09:59:42 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...universities has what appears to be a flippant disregard for third party threat reports/assessments. What other information is ignored because the person in charge believes that what was good enough 6 months ago is still good enough today? Further, how many other organizations approach security control design, implementation, and management...
 
Tags: party threat, months ago, information, flippant disregard, employee pii, country, responsible, appears, charge
 
 
 
 
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XP SP3 could drive NAP adoption

2008-03-06 09:49:05 by HASH0x8b473b0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...universities generally are not the first ones to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft Server software. On the commercial side of the house, Vista is just not a factor yet. In fact many customers we speak to are no where close to be ready to support Vista. So if Vista is a pre-req for NAP, we won't see NAP as a major factor until 2009...
 
Tags: nap, nap agent, server, policy server, nap client, windows server, vista, support vista, microsoft server software
 
 
 
 
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XP SP3 could drive NAP adoption

2008-03-06 10:20:24 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...universities generally are not the first ones to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft Server software. On the commercial side of the house, Vista is just not a factor yet. In fact many customers we speak to are no where close to be ready to support Vista. So if Vista is a pre-req for NAP, we won't see NAP as a major factor until 2009...
 
Tags: nap, nap agent, server, policy server, nap client, windows server, vista, support vista, microsoft server software