The Continuing Evolution of Effective IT Security Practices.
John Voloudakis · Educational Review · 2006
ey to the importance of and focus on IT security over the past ten to fifteen years is the change in information technology itself. Previously a specialized tool used by a relatively small subset of higher education institutions, information technology today represents a critical system in the organism that is a modern college or university. In the past, IT security was an afterthought on many campuses. Administrators chose to protect “critical” systems with encryption or other advanced techniques or to provide minimal protection, such as anti-virus software, for the broader network. For the most part, security activities were reactive, focused primarily on countering targeted attacks by individual hackers or slow-spreading viruses replicated by individual users’ activities.