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New Report: Colleges and Universities "Insecure and Unaware"
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently analyzed public
college records and reports in California, Florida, New York,
and concluding that, as one of the interviewees was quoted
as saying, public institutions are "among the least secure
places in the universe, as far as computing g'es." This is a
must-read item, due to its depth and scope.
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Top-Ten IT Issues Survey Results
EDUCAUSE has just published the results of its fifth annual
Current IT Issues Survey in EDUCAUSE Quarterly identifying
the issues that leaders in higher education information
technology see as their most critical challenges. The survey
gathered responses from 35 percent (571) of the 1,638
primary representatives of EDUCAUSE member institutions,
representing public and private, associate- through
doctorate-granting, and all sized institutions.
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Glitches Plague College Admissions
College admissions glitches and problems associated with the
processes are brought together in a this comprehensive
article which suggests that a too-fast, and not-well-prepared
move to digitization and automation may be the culprit.
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University of Utah Well-Protected from Sasser
Sasser virus had hit only two machines on the University of
Utah network. Steven Hess, associate academic vice president
for information technology says that implementing
lessons-learned from Blaster (last fall) was responsible for
UU's current relative immunity.
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i2Hub: File Swapping on Internet2
The i2Hub network is based on Direct Connect, but running on
Internet2 it gives file sharers a previously unknown experience
of speed - and raises fears of a faster shift from students
illegally sharing music files to students illegally sharing
movies.
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Providence College Network Experiences Slowing from Viruses
Students at Providence College are not at all apathetic when
they can't access files over the network, but they appear to
be quite capable of ignoring notices that their machines are
infected and ignoring instructions on how to clean them up.
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Sasser Worm Spreading Swiftly . . . But How Swiftly?
Sasser emerged from cyberspace about three weeks after Microsoft
shared a corrective-code software patch for yet another hole
in the OS. It remains to be seen whether Sasser's impact will
reach the level attained by Blaster, a similar worm from late
last summer, which disrupted the start of classes at many
institutions.
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BASIC Turns 40
You pretty much have to *be* 50 or older to really appreciate
this anniversary, but many who recall the earlier days of
computing lament the change that has made people consumers
of software rather than creators.
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Reactions Differ to Surveillance Cameras at Arizona State
The implementation of surveillance cameras on the ASU campus
seems to be widespread (13 in the Hayden Library alone) and
increasing, but opponents claim guidelines are not being
followed, privacy is being violated, that there is no measure
of effectiveness, and that there is a potential for misuse
of the images.
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Outsourcing: Reforms Not Rhetoric
Gartner estimates that one out of every 20 jobs in internal IT departments
will move overseas by the end of 2004. The causes of lost IT jobs are manifold
and sometimes not easily understood. Many point fingers of blame at the education
and training of computer workers (out of date, outmoded), among other causes.
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