HIGH EDUCATION BELIEVES NETWORKS ARE MORE SECURE NOW.

Computer Security Update, July, 2009

Security issues continue to concern the people who run higher education computer and communications networks, but despite their need to remain constantly on guard, they believe their networks are secure and that they are safer now than in the past.

These are some of the key findings in the latest member survey by ACUTA, the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education, which surveyed members attending its recent Annual Conference in Atlanta.

The survey asked members to identify the threats that most concern them and what they are doing in response, as well as to grade their own networks' security. Survey respondents, representing scores of college and universities in the U.S. and Canada, gave their networks...

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