01/06/09
North Lindsey College in North Lincolnshire, United Kingdom has selected Mirage Networks' MAX-500 network access control appliance to secure the wired and wireless networks across campus.
01/05/09
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched the Rave Guardian personal mobile alarm system to provide students, faculty, and staff a direct connection with campus police.
01/05/09
Q1 Labs has announced VFlow Collector for QRadar, a network and application layer activity monitor designed to IT professionals oversee and secure virtual environments.
12/12/08
One campus found that one in six USB devices was loaded with malware that could infect computers. What should your campus be doing?
12/11/08
Security vendor Finjan predicts that the current economic downturn could herald a sharp rise in cybercrime during 2009--driven by the rise in the number of IT people being laid off. According to a report from the company's Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC), more unemployed IT personnel will be tempted to seek "new and easy income by purchasing and using crimeware toolkits that are sold by professional hackers."
12/11/08
Microsoft announced it will be integrating technology from EMC's security division, RSA, into future products. Microsoft will build the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) classification technology into its platform and future information protection products to enable organizations to define information security polices centrally, automatically identify and classify sensitive data virtually anywhere in the infrastructure, and use a range of controls to protect data at the endpoints, network, and data center. In addition, in the near term RSA's DLP Suite 6.5 will be engineered to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS) within Windows Server 2008.
12/11/08
Panjab University Library in Chandigarh, the capital of the Punjab region in northwest India, will be implementing a radio frequency identification (RFID) system from 3M Library Systems for circulation and inventory management and security.
12/11/08
DePaul University is using network cameras from Axis Communications as a security measure on its two main campuses, which are interwoven with surrounding residential and commercial communities in Chicago. Over the course of this past summer, DePaul replaced a legacy system of various analog cameras--each running on coaxial cable and requiring a digital video recorder to record events--with Axis network cameras.
12/10/08
Pacific University of Forest Grove, OR has integrated its Facebook and Twitter accounts into its Omnilert e2Campus emergency notification system. This allows the university to send e2Campus alerts (called Boxer Alerts at Pacific U) automatically and simultaneously to the school's Facebook and Twitter accounts without the need for logging into Facebook and Twitter separately. This also means students who haven't enrolled in the school's official alert system may still get the alerts through the social networking and communication sites.
12/10/08
ClearSight Networks has launched ClearSight Network Time Machine (NTM) Express, a network monitoring system for smaller organizations. The NTM Express gives administrators the ability to monitor and analyze their networks to maintain network uptime. Atlas Express, a navigation system that indexes, classifies, and makes use of network information, is integrated with NTM Express to enhance network visibility.