Security/Privacy
- Promisec Spectator Expands Agentless Endpoint Security
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4/11/2007
Security solutions provider Promisec has unveiled a new version of its Promisec Spectator Professional, an endpoint security management suite. The latest version adds support for Windows Vista and includes performance and feature enhancements as well.
- Wren Updates Video Management System
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4/11/2007
Wren has updated its video surveillance software for the Wren Video Management System (VMS) to version 3.0. Wren VMS is a security system designed for educational institutions.
- Microsoft Casts Legal Net on Education Software Smugglers
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4/9/2007
Microsoft filed law suits last week to stop what it charged were smuggling operations that were reselling software intended for students and schools to unsuspecting retail consumers. Microsoft filed nine lawsuits and issued more than 50 cease and desist letters in efforts to shut down the alleged smuggling operations.
- Flagler College To Take Historic Buildings Wireless
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4/9/2007
Flagler College in Florida will deploy a wireless network throughout its campus in an effort to preserve the integrity of the historic buildings on the school's site and to provide centralized security for its wireless users. Alcatel-Lucent will handle the implementation.
- Risk and Responsibility
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4/5/2007
Young people taking risks. Who'd have thought? But the science is there, telling us that a 20-year-old's brain has not yet fully matured, even though the rest of his or her body has.
- Wren Updates Video Management System
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4/5/2007
Wren has updated its video surveillance software for the Wren Video Management System (VMS) to version 3.0. Wren VMS is a security system designed for education institutions.
- CMU Engineering Dean Honored for Global Edu Vision
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4/3/2007
Pradeep Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, was given the "Cyber Education Champion Award" from the Business Software Alliance, an association of software companies.
- Sense & Clickability
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3/29/2007
College student-aged human beings do some pretty stupid and potentially unsafe things. There's nothing new about that observation.
- GTG Releases Secure Disc Standalone
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3/21/2007
Global Technologies Group has released SecureDisc Standalone, a utility for encrypting the contents of CD and DVD media.
- Hamilton Expands Mirage Endpoint Control Implementation
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3/19/2007
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, has expanded use of Mirage Networks' Endpoint Control system across its campus and deployed the company's Mirage Management Server for security.
- Blue Lane Debuts VirtualShield for VMware
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3/15/2007
Blue Lane Technologies has released a new security utility for VMware called VirtualShield. The tool, developed in cooperation with VMware, is designed to provide protection for the VMware Infrastructure 3 platform.
- ComputracePlus Protects Laptops at St. John's University
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3/14/2007
With more than 14,000 laptops distributed to students and faculty, the management and protection of St. John's investment is vital.
- Ohio U Names New CIO Following Security Breaches
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3/13/2007
Ohio University last week named Brice Bible chief information officer following a computer security debacle last April in which hackers broke into four computer systems and compromised files containing Social Security numbers, names, medical records and addresses of about 173,000 people.
- Student Googles Self, Discovers Social Security Number(s)
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3/13/2007
Los Rios Community College District, a Sacramento-area community college district, has sent letters to 2,000 students to let them know their Social Security numbers were mistakenly put online.
- Sendio Launches E-Mail Security Program for Education
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3/9/2007
E-mail security solutions provider Sendio this week launched a new program for higher ed and public and private K-12 schools. The company is making its I.C.E. Box e-mail security appliance available for half price to qualifying institutions.
- John Jay School of Criminal Justice Deploys IP-Based Access Control System
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3/9/2007
DVTel Inc. recently announced that John Jay School for Criminal Justice employed the company's IP-based Longitude IPAC (IP access control) system to provide security for more than 20,000 students, faculty, and staff at three college buildings in New York City.
- The Internet Crime Cafe
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3/9/2007
It was the late 1980s, the era of VAXes and the NSFNET. Needing more disk space, one of our students hacked the account of a faculty member who was on sabbatical at another university. His exploits, which soon included computers from coast to coast, went unnoticed until the student forwarded an important but unread e-mail to the faculty member's sabbatical account. After explaining to the student the error of his ways and thanking him for his honesty in coming to the aid of our faculty member, we hired him.
- Northwestern U To Boost Dorm Security
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3/9/2007
Northwestern University officials will be installing security cameras and hiring uniformed security monitors beginning next fall, Vice President for Student Affairs William Banis announced at a recent Associated Student Government Senate meeting.
- Some Students Feel Safer at San Jose State University with Police Escorts
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3/9/2007
The overall safety at San Jose State University on a daily basis can be summed up in two words: "very safe," according to University Police Sgt. John Laws.
- Ex-UC Online Official Accused of Embezzlement
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3/6/2007
The former program director of a University of California office that manages online learning turned himself into police after a Santa Cruz County superior court judge issued a warrant for his arrest, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported.
- UPMC Center for Biosecurity Adopts SiteExecutive
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3/5/2007
The Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has launched two websites using SystemExecutive from Systems Alliance, an IT and business consulting firm.
- Campus Computing Research: Security Is Never Simple
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12/27/2006
The Campus Computing Project released its 2006 National Survey of Information Technology in US Higher Education this last October.
- Mastering Mobile Security
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12/27/2006
IS YOUR MOST vital information walking out the door or sneaking off campus? That’s the question you must address in the age of mobile computing. A decade ago, most university information was safely protected in data centers or tucked away on departmental servers. But e-mail, FTP software, USB thumb drives, smart phones, notebook computers, and other mobile devices mean your data is always on the move.
- Does UCLA Have a Campuswide, Integrated Crisis Plan?
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12/13/2006
My heart goes out to campus IT folks who experience private data security breaches. I know, we all know, that except for a few extreme cases, each one of these could be any of us. No matter how hard we try, there is always some vulnerability.
- The Desegregation of Privacy Issues: Closing the Privacy Gap?
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10/11/2006
There are lots of things that “you can’t hide” anymore. Consumers have experienced this as many institutions, including colleges and universities, have leaked “personal data” in hundreds of reported instances.
