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Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff
From: Samuel Liles <sliles () PURDUE EDU>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:40:59 -0600
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? -------- Sam Liles -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Antonio Quesada Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 12:30 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU 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!!!! ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Antonio Quesada (Jan 31)
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- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Theresa M Rowe (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Sadler, Connie (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Samuel Liles (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Piscitello, Frank (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Jon E. Mitchiner (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Tracy Mitrano (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Steven Alexander (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Penn, Blake (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Brian Kaye (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Jon E. Mitchiner (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Penn, Blake (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff Alec Yasinsac (Jan 31)
- Re: Role of Campus Police. Was: number of IT security staff James Riden (Jan 31)
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