Re: computer security vision for next 3-5 years

["Stephen C. Gay" <sgay () KENNESAW EDU>]

Jason,

This is a great list. I would recommend adding the continued growth of off-site computing (cloud) and the ease of 
improperly handling institutional data in the cloud.

Stephen C Gay   CISSP
ITS Associate Director - Information Security Office
KSU Information Security Officer
Kennesaw State University
sgay () kennesaw edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason R. Youngquist" <jryoungquist () CCIS EDU>
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:24:33 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [SECURITY] computer security vision for next 3-5 years

My boss asked me this morning to come up with a computer security vision for the next 3-5 years.  Since it is already 
2010, I thought I'd get some input from the community on what would you like to see happen to computer security in 
higher education, how will your job change (if any), and how can we as computer security professionals in higher 
education institutions best protect against the growing threats?

If you've seen any blogs/articles on computer security trends in higher education, please forward them my way.

Here's what I've come up with so far:

*       Social Engineering will still be the easiest way to get confidential information.
*       Multi-factor security will be prevalent.
*       More data breach regulations.
*       PDAs and smart phones will be encrypted due to the sensitive email/ information that they store and how easily 
they are stolen.
*       Anti-virus software will be still used, but application white-listing will become more prevalent.

Some links:
http://media.techtarget.com/searchFinancialSecurity/downloads/FISD09_MainBallroom_Session8_StateofComputerSecurity_Ranum.pdf
http://www.sans.org/security-resources/10_security_trends.pdf



Appreciate any thoughts you can provide.
Jason Youngquist
Information Technology Security Engineer, Security+
Technology Services
Columbia College
1001 Rogers Street, Columbia, MO  65216
(573) 875-7334
jryoungquist () ccis edu
http://www.ccis.edu