Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff

[Samuel Liles <sliles () PURDUE EDU>]

Well I am a former police officer (7 years + military service), I am a
member of the faculty at my institution, and I'm an information assurance
researcher (a lofty goal).

My experience is that my courses are filling with more police officers as
their field of endeavor expands into the cyber world. We often forget that
the police are not lawyers, or judges. Campus police are often at the bottom
of the barrel in training, experience, and resources. This all impacts their
ability to do their actual job which is investigation of a crime. Still
within the world of academia how many senior network administrators are
going to notify their University Police instead of the FBI after a loss? As
a counter point how many Universities really want the heavy to pedantic
presence of law enforcement in their information technology infrastructure?

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Sam Liles

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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security
staff

Well, an InfoSec Officer of another institution of the University System of
Georgia was kind enough to call me and tell me that she disagrees on my
position that Information Security should be handled by Campus Police. Her
point being that Campus Police is not trained to deal with electronic crime
and that information security is more than just Crime Prevention. I
appreciate her reading my post, Thanks!!!!

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