By Monique Lucey
Welcome to the H3C On-Demand Higher Education blog. I’m Monique Lucey, the higher education solutions marketing manager for the H3C product line. I’m responsible for understanding the technology trends and issues in higher education and ensuring that our solutions deliver performance and value to meet the specific needs of academic institutions around the globe.
We’re launching this blog to create a dialogue about the business and technology challenges you’re confronting as you support collaboration among your users via secure on-demand access. Our goal: To help you enable your institution to deliver best-in-class services to achieve enhanced collaboration and academic excellence.
In the coming months, my colleagues and I will offer a look at the industry from our point of view which encompasses the latest research, analyst and industry expert views on topics such as cloud versus data centers, implications of web 2.0 on security and the growing demand for Network Access Control to name a few. We hope to get your feedback to round out the discussions.
So let me kick off this premier edition with the top concern among academic institutions – security and student privacy. As the headline of this entry suggests, higher education network security is at risk.
This Network World article looks at some alarming survey results which make it clear that higher education institutions perceive the threat of viruses and malware as the greatest network security threat. 58% of respondents claim the most common way they fight these shortcomings is through education of students and staff. But is education alone enough?
I’m wondering if you’re seeing increased pressure in your institution to shore up your network against the latest security threats. If so, what are you doing to meet this demand?
Over the next few weeks, we’ll continue to probe into this topic, share your insight and best practices. We hope you continue to visit us to join in on the discussion and stay tuned for more on the topic of security as it relates to FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and other compliance challenges in higher education.
