Campus Technology: Protecting Data at the University of St. Thomas

Solutions and Strategies for Higher Ed

4/24/2009

Security Spotlight

Protecting Data at the University of St. Thomas
Data backup had increasingly become a major challenge at the University of St. Thomas. With a growing body of data in its Banner enterprise resource planning system, its Blackboard installation, departmental needs, and personal storage directories set at 500 MB for every one of the 11,000 students and 2,000 faculty and staff members, data stores were gobbling up terabytes of space.More

Campus Security News

Virginia Tech Shootings Sparked Movement on Campus Safety
The anniversary of the shootings that took place at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg April 16, 2007--which awakened other institutions to the need for bolstering their attention to campus safety--was remembered on campus with a variety of activities this year.More
Community Colleges Improve Crisis Communications with Emergency Notification System
Twelve community colleges--among them Wayne County Community College District in Detroit and Illinois Eastern Community Colleges--have recently signed on with Omnilert for its emergency notification system for higher education. Since most students at community colleges live off campus, reaching the population with mass notifications is more difficult.More
Carnegie Mellon To Deploy Self-Healing Wireless Mesh Network for Emergency Notifications
Metis Secure Solutions has launched a new location-based emergency notification system, developed in cooperation with Carnegie Mellon University and aimed at addressing the perceived shortcomings of other alert systems.More
e2Campus Adopts OASIS Common Alerting Protocol 1.1
Omnilert has released e2Campus 3.0, an update to the company's emergency notification system for education. The latest release adds support for OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) 1.1, allowing e2Campus to integrate with a range of other emergency communications systems.More
Fireware XTM To Extend UTM Appliance Security
WatchGuard Technologies has introduced Fireware XTM, its new operating system for unified threat management (UTM) firewall appliances. The latest release includes a variety of security enhancements and improvements to networking and management and is expected to be available in early June.More
Genetec Releases New Versions of IP Security Tools Omnicast and Synergis
Genetec has updated its IP-based access control product, Synergis, as well as its IP video surveillance application, Omnicast.More
RSA: Microsoft Urges Greater Internet Security Collaboration
As cyber security problems become more acute and more widespread, Microsoft urged the IT community to take a more active role, and described its own Internet security approach.More
Stirling Beta 2 Unveiled for Enterprise Security
Microsoft has announced the beta 2 release of "Stirling," which is the code name for an integrated suite of enterprise security solutions based on the company's Forefront products. The beta can be accessed at Microsoft's TechNet site now.More

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