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An Assessment of Cybersecurity Performance in the Saudi Universities: A Total Quality Management Approach
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Tahani Abdullah Abdurhman Alhumud; Abdulfattah Omar; Waheed M. A. Altohami – Cogent Education, 2023
Cybersecurity systems are crucial for safeguarding information assets across various sectors, including government, military, and commercial domains. In Saudi Arabia, cybersecurity has gained significant importance within the national security strategy, resulting in substantial investments in technologies to protect information assets, combat…
Descriptors: Information Security, Computer Security, Universities, Total Quality Management
Battling Data Breaches: For Higher Education Institutions, Data Breach Prevention is More Complex than for Industry and Business
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Patton, Madeline – Community College Journal, 2015
Data breach prevention is a battle, rarely plain and never simple. For higher education institutions, the Sisyphean aspects of the task are more complex than for industry and business. Two-year colleges have payrolls and vendor contracts like those enterprises. They also have public record and student confidentiality requirements. Colleges must…
Descriptors: Disclosure, Computer Security, Confidential Records, Confidentiality
Privacy, Security, & Compliance: Strange Bedfellows or a Marriage Made in Heaven?
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Corn, Michael; Rosenthal, Jane – EDUCAUSE Review, 2013
Where does privacy belong in the college/university ecosystem, and what should its relationship be with security and compliance? Are the three areas best kept separate and distinct? Should there be some overlap? Or would a single office, officer, and/or reporting line enable a big picture of the whole? This article examines several of the campus…
Descriptors: Privacy, Compliance (Legal), Campuses, Strategic Planning
Risk Factors: Colleges Look to Manage Threats Ranging from Fraud to Data Breaches
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Wills, Lisa M. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2011
When an individual hears the term risk, he/she usually thinks of the financial institutions whose mismanagement of risk was instrumental in causing the 2008 financial crash. But all organizations, including colleges and universities, face various types and levels of risk, which threaten to harm the institutions and their ability to fulfill their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Risk Management, Risk, Access to Information
Unlocking Student Data Could Lead to "App Economy" for Colleges: Colleges Are Pressured to Open Up Student Data
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DeSantis, Nick – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
College campuses are hothouses of data, including course schedules, degree requirements, and grades. But much of the information remains spread out across software systems or locked on university servers. Start-up companies want to pry the information loose from campus servers in order to offer personalized services that could transform the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Grades (Scholastic), Scores
Proceedings of the International Conferences on Internet Technologies & Society (ITS), Education Technologies (ICEduTECH), and Sustainability, Technology and Education (STE) (Melbourne, Australia, December 6-8, 2016)
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Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Issa, Theodora, Ed.; McKay, Elspeth, Ed.; Isias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the International Conferences on Internet Technologies & Society (ITS 2016), Educational Technologies (ICEduTech 2016) and Sustainability, Technology and Education (STE 2016), which have been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries, Internet, Educational Technology