Educational Security Incidents Year in Reivew 2009 available

[Adam Dodge <addodge () EIU EDU>]

Good Morning Everyone:

I just wanted to make a quick announcement that Educational Security Incidents is back and a new Year in Review for 
2009 is available at http://www.adamdodge.com/esi/yir_2009

> From the summary:
The information security incidents reported by institutions of higher education throughout 2009 were down significantly 
in both the number of incidents and the amount of information exposed. This downward trend in higher education 
incidents follows a broader downward trend in breaches across all industry sectors in 2009 . As such, 2009 saw fewer 
institutions reporting a smaller number of breaches. During 2009, institutions of higher education showed no Loss-type 
incidents, a significant change over the past three years. In addition, only one incident reported in the news affected 
multiple institutions, a substantially smaller number than 2008. In fact, many of the numbers in the Year in Review 
2009 are close to those reported in 2006. However, the large number of institutions involved in this one 
multi-institution incident once against caused the number of institutions suffering from a breach to be greater than 
then number of breaches reported.


We have also added over 30 incidents from 2010 to bring the site up-to-date with reported breaches.

Thanks,
Adam

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Adam Dodge, CISSP, MSIA
Information Technology Security Officer
Eastern Illinois University
217-581-1942
addodge () eiu edu