Re: Quick Survey - How much of Faculty/Staff directory information is made public? And How?

[Barbara Torney <bt42 () COLUMBIA EDU>]

We show the usual (name, title, phone, location, and email address),  
but since it requires a search transaction, nothing is on the site in  
the directory in static html.  Everything is in a database.

Of course, I know that individual department pages have whatever on  
them, although our web editor has tried to clean them up when he comes  
across them.  We are working on moving the departmental staff  
information to a query, too.  (Right now you can look up a department  
in the directory, but it only gives you the general contact number.)

I have a feeling that most of our addresses are already out there in  
cyberspace, many harvested from address books via viral infections.   
But it's never too late to lock the barn door, eh?

Regards, bat

--
Barbara Torney
Director, Administrative Information Services
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

V: 212-678-3487
F: 212-678-3243


Quoting Chris Gauthier <cgauthie () PCC EDU>:

> One organization I checked out did something very ingenious.  They have
> a contact page that looks great, but has no clickable links on it.
> Upon further inspection, the whole list was an image instead of HTML.
> Quite clever, I thought.
>
> Chris
>
> James Moore wrote:
> > I am looking to quickly benchmark how much information about   
> > faculty and staff is made public.  Our IT department, and our web   
> > governance group are united in that it should be on the web,   
> > because it always has been.  People are not yet good at doing   
> > syntax like jhmiso (rat - r) rit (dOt) edu, so email address   
> > collection engines could certainly gather a lot of faculty and   
> > staff addresses off of other websites.  Also, for easy navigation,   
> > it is arranged by department, so the organizational view is public   
> > too.  Titles are included.  Direct telephone numbers are included,   
> > as are building or street address, and often room numbers.
> >
> > I originally recommended that this be classified "RIT Internal Use   
> > Only", and have IP restrictions (on campus use) or a requirement to  
> >  login to get the full information from the Internet.  I have  
> > looked  at a couple of universities that have searches for "People"  
> > on  their main page, and have found that they often contain all of  
> > the  same information, and sometimes more, except for the  
> > departmental  organization information.  Since ours is a PDF (and  
> > you could find  who is what, rather than knowing the who, and  
> > looking for them)  that is another difference.
> >
> > I am interested in understanding the rational behind classification  
> >  and presentation of this information.  I am interested as well in   
> > any stories of why people changed their classification.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > - - - -
> > Jim Moore, CISSP, IAM
> > Information Security Officer
> > Rochester Institute of Technology
> > 13 Lomb Memorial Drive
> > Rochester, NY 14623-5603
> > (585) 475-5406 (office)
> > (585) 475-4208 (lab)
> > (585) 475-7950 (fax)
> >
> >
> >
> > "We will have a chance when we are as efficient at communicating   
> > information security best practices, as hackers and criminals are   
> > at sharing attack information"  - Peter Presidio
> >
> > Confidentiality Notice:  Do the right thing.  If this has the words  
> >  "Confidential" or "Private" in the subject line, or similar   
> > language in the email body, or as a label on any attachment, then   
> > think.  Do you know me?  Did you expect to receive this?  Do you   
> > recognize and work with the other addressees?  If not, then you   
> > probably received this in error.  Please, be respectful and   
> > courteous, and delete it immediately.  Please, don't forward it to   
> > anyone. Now, wasn't that simple.  Just, if you had made an error in  
> >  a sensitive email, and I received it, what would you want me to do  
> >  with it?
>
> --
> Chris Gauthier, CCNA, Network+, A+
> Network Administration Team
> Portland Community College
> Portland, Oregon
>
> "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes
> turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to
> return."
> --Leonardo da Vinci