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Re: IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact
From: Kevin Shalla <Kevin.Shalla () IIT EDU>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:29:30 -0500
I believe it would be a good idea if it were cost-free, but alas it is not. I agree with others that the single person of contact is not really feasible - for most campuses the campus police office would probably be the only office staffed 24 X 7. The police could have an on-call list of whom to call during which times. Problems with this could be the false alarms - how could campus police triage and determine whether this is a serious problem (hundreds of computers are launching denial of service attack) versus moderate problem (one computer is scanning another computer) versus annoyances (one computer has a virus, and it probably came from a computer on our campus). Large universities could afford additional staffing to support this plan, small colleges would find this burdensome. At 02:41 PM 9/19/2002 -0400, Rodney Petersen wrote:
One of the recommendations in the "National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace" (www.securecyberspace.gov) is that "each college and university should consider establishing a point-of-contact, reachable at all times, to Internet service providers (ISPs) and law enforcement officials in the event that the school's IT systems are discovered to be launching cyber attacks." Is this a good idea? How could it be implemented across higher education? What are obstacles or challenges for moving forward with this recommendation? Other comments or insights?
Kevin Shalla Manager, Student Information Systems Illinois Institute of Technology <mailto:Kevin.Shalla () iit edu> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/memdir/cg/.
Current thread:
- IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact Rodney Petersen (Sep 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact Gary Flynn (Sep 19)
- Re: IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact Jim Moore (Sep 19)
- Re: IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact Allen Chang (Sep 20)
- Re: IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact Dan Updegrove (Sep 22)
- Re: IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact Kevin Shalla (Sep 23)
- Re: IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact Bruhn, Mark S. (Sep 23)
- Re: IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact Kevin Shalla (Sep 23)
- Re: IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact Bruhn, Mark S. (Sep 23)
- Re: IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact Nick Tate (Sep 23)