Information Security Matters issues archive

“Information Security Matters”

You can use this page to access any published issue of the Information Security Matters newsletter.

These issues are usually very brief - typically only two pages long. It is published multiple times per year but usually not more frequently than every two months or so. The articles are oriented toward strategy,
management, policy, or planning for information security in higher
education or some combination of those ideas.

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Here is the list of published issues:

2005

August - Vol 2, Nr 3 [224 KB PDF]
The primary article in this issue discusses the importance of encryption as a means to directly protect sensitive information. This issue also includes an article summarizing reader responses to a question regarding how institutions select information security products, posed in the April issue.
April - Vol 2, Nr 2 [226 KB PDF]
This issue looks at the possible implications of "phishing" on academic institutions and also raises questions about the selection of information security products.
January - Vol 2, Nr 1 [226 KB PDF]
Includes an article on the difficulty of convincing our institutions about the benefits of information security and provides some advice. Also looks at the growing spyware threat.

2004

October - Vol 1, Nr 1 [227 KB PDF]
One article discusses the value of using a patch management system to help protect distributed personal computers from attack. Another looks at the concept of awareness and its role at institutions. A short piece describes the shield found on each issue (and in the upper left hand corner of this page).
August - Vol 1, Nr 1 [240 KB PDF]
This inaugural issue includes an article on the phenomenon of accelerating time-to-exploit. It also offers some advice about the (then) new Windows XP™ service pack 2 security upgrade. And it describes the purpose of the newsletter.