Studied a server security breach at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, to highlight personnel roles, detection of the compromised server, policy enforcement, forensics, and the proactive search for other servers threatened in the same way. (SLD)

Discusses the drivers for an identity management system (IdM), components of this system, and its role within a school security strategy, focusing on: basic access management; requirements for access management; middleware support for an access management system; IdM implementation considerations (e.g., access eligibilities, authentication…

An annual survey to determine pressing campus information technology (IT) challenges revealed that campus IT staffing challenges have eased, while security management has emerged as an issue of strategic importance. Numerous other findings were also gathered. (EV)

Discusses how to develop effective security education and awareness programs to help the wide and varied groups of people on campuses understand their role in campus security, examining: target audiences (e.g., students, parents, faculty, researchers, and administrators); effective delivery methods (e.g., online quizzes, handbooks, and videos);…