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The Turkey Techie and the CIFAC Report
11/30/2005
The CIFAC study found that as result of the evolution of campus computer usage, a situation currently exists where system administrators and other IT personnel are seen by everyone else as responsible for all of the bad things that happen, while rarely being recognized when things are running well.
As the report says, "IT security, like any type of security, is a negative deliverable."
Yet, those same people don't have the resources to do the "user-end" kinds of things that are apparently those things that can have the biggest impact toward better security. Where's your budget going to come from to really educate all your IT staff, other staff, faculty, administrators, and students, about the best way to be secure?
So, I've only hit a few tiny points about the CIFAC study. You should download it and read it over in depth. There are so many useful parts that it would take 6-8 of these weekly columns to cover them all. Maybe the best part of the study, and a point central to what the researchers are trying to do, was its use of a new "categorization system" for incidents; not "taxonomy," and the report will tell you why not!
For me, the best part of being my family's Turkey Techie this year was helping my brother, Randy, absolutely not a techie of any kind, who had just the week before gotten a new laptop. His techie hadn't had time to do much with it yet, and he wanted to play. I helped him get Outlook going, showed him some of my favorite online toys like Backpackit, and helped him download and install Google Desktop.
Whether he tells his techie that I helped him or not is up to him! But I hope he d'esn't let his techie know how to get ahold of me. :)
About the author: Terry Calhoun is Director of Communications and Publications for the Society
for College and University Planning (SCUP). You can contact him through CT's IT Trends forum by clicking here. View more articles by Terry Calhoun.
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