Safeguarding Information Assets in Higher Education: The Role of the CSO.
Rodney J. Petersen · Educational Review · 2006
campus information system becomes unavailable because a hacker has exploited a vulnerability in the operating system and rendered the application unusable. A faculty member’s laptop, which contains research data including personally identifiable information on research subjects, turns up missing. A college’s homepage is altered, without authorization, to include sexually explicit content. A private organization’s Web site is the subject of a computergenerated attack that originates from an Internet connection at a university. Increasingly, crises such as these are referred to the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to help coordinate an institutional response. For higher education, the CSO is an important strategic and intellectual resource in the protection of information assets and the design of future information systems.