Re: IHEs & NATIONAL STRATEGY: Single Point-Of-Contact

[Kevin Shalla <Kevin.Shalla () IIT EDU>]

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>

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