Events
Campus Technology 2009
July 27 - 30, 2009
Boston, MA
Campus Technology 2008
July 28 - 31, 2008
Boston, MA
12/2/2008
Hollins University, among other higher ed institutions in Virginia, has implemented Omnilert's e2Campus emergency notification system (ENS) just ahead of a state-mandated deadline requiring them at every public institution of higher education by Jan. 1. Hollins itself isn't a public campus, but wished to implement an ENS before the end of the year, the school said in a company statement.
12/1/2008
Binghamton University, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, is using StealthWatch from Lancope to help streamline network management, control, and security with visibility of network behavior. Binghamton has an IT network that spans 20,000 client endpoints and six geographic locations. After contending with worm propagation and other security threats that affected network performance, the university's network management team sought a way to increase visibility of network traffic and analyze network behavior for potential threats.
11/26/2008
George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, VA has been awarded a grant from Intergraph to enable students enrolled in GMU's Geospatial Intelligence Graduate Certificate program to use the company's geospatial production and exploitation software as part of their core curriculum.
11/25/2008
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Institute for Cyber Security (ICS) has launched a new Internet security incubator. The incubator was developed to commercialize promising technologies that address major cyber security and privacy issues. The first companies to enter the incubator are Denim Labs and SafeMashups.
11/24/2008
Two universities, the 29,000-student Texas State University-San Marcos and the 26,000-student University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, have recently deployed network access control appliances from Mirage Networks to secure portions of their networks.
11/24/2008
Internet security vendor SmoothWall has launched two new unified threat management (UTM) hardware appliances, the 100 and 300 Series, designed for small and medium sized organizations.
11/20/2008
Microsoft is rolling out a free antivirus software program for consumers that will compete with products made by Symantec and McAfee. Code-named "Morro," the AV app is expected to be available by the end of 2009.
11/19/2008
How can an institution incorporate Web 2.0 learning opportunities for students, and evidence of learning from those opportunities, into existing campus technologies and processes? PlugJam is providing part of the answer.
11/19/2008
The Pennsylvania State University's World Campus and Kryterion have gone public with results of a pilot in which students completed proctored exams online using Webassessor Online Secured Testing. The technology is intended to deliver tests without the need for an in-room proctor present.
11/19/2008
MIR3 has added a new notification feature to its family of inEnterprise solutions. Recorded Response allows emergency managers to notify their target recipients of events as well as collect responses in their recorded voices in addition to traditional response options. This feature now allows the collection of more exact and situation-specific detail.
11/19/2008
Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) has gone public with its use of AVG Anti-Virus software. The college, which has 3,200 students and 200 staff and faculty on two campuses, runs a network with about 700 workstations and 13 servers.
11/18/2008
Q1 Labs announced the availability of a free, downloadable log management and compliance product that provides users with visibility across networks, data centers, and infrastructures.
11/14/2008
Hopefully by now we have educated our faculty and staff to the dangers of traveling with a laptop containing sensitive information--say Social Security numbers or a faculty member's latest patentable research. But have we been educating them about the security risks of smart phones?
11/11/2008
SMobile Systems has released an antivirus program for phones running Android, the Google-developed operating system. The company already offers similar solutions for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, and iPhone devices.
11/7/2008
Omnilert has integrated its e2Campus emergency notification system with Twitter. This enables e2Campus clients to push e2Campus alerts automatically and simultaneously to their schools' Twitter accounts without having to log in to their Twitter account separately.
11/6/2008
Moodlerooms and Acxiom Risk Mitigation have teamed up to deliver a new solution to help verify student identities in higher education distance learning using Moodle, the popular open source learning management system.
11/6/2008
iParadigms has released a new version of its iThenticate plagiarism detection platform.
11/5/2008
Rave Wireless will be adding BlackBerry devices to the roster of mechanisms by which alerts can be sent out through Rave Alert, its notification service. The company has also added AOL's AIM Express instant messaging service to its list of supported text receiving methods.
11/5/2008
The University of Miami and its Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine have deployed an intrusion prevention system (IPS) from Top Layer Security as part of a trade-in program offered by the vendor.
11/4/2008
Cornell University has deployed several gigabit wireless radio links from BridgeWave Communications as part of its network hardening strategy.
11/4/2008
The University of Pittsburgh has signed on for Verizon Notification Services to communicate to the campus community.
11/3/2008
Speaking about his company's "Digital Disruptions" report released this past month, Computer Sciences Corp.'s Chief Innovation Officer Lem Lasher said questions over data security will be a major impediment to enterprise adoption of cloud computing.
10/31/2008
Identity thieves and hackers appear to be coming at Windows users from all fronts, most commonly with spam. They were particularly active during the third quarter of 2008, when they did it eight times more frequently than in the previous quarter, according to a report released Monday by Sophos.
10/31/2008
The University of Louisville has selected technology from GuardianEdge for hard disk encryption, smartphone protection and device control to safeguard data for the campus community. A motive for the deployment is the concern about potential data breaches.
10/30/2008
The IT security function, as a percentage of total IT staff at enterprise organizations, appears to be in decline, according to an addendum on security in a research report released this week by Computer Economics.
Campus Technology 2009
July 27 - 30, 2009
Boston, MA
Campus Technology 2008
July 28 - 31, 2008
Boston, MA
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