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2009 Program

Program Overview

Securing the eCampus 2009: Building a Culture of Information Security in an Academic Institution takes place on July 27-28, 2009.

Monday, July 27

The conference will be held on the Dartmouth campus and will feature presentations from information security and educational IT leaders from across the country. Topics of discussion will include:

• Student use of social networking applications
• "Crimeware" and its impact on higher education
• An update on federal policies affecting the higher-ed community and initiatives of the EDUCAUSE Security Task Force
• Metrics for cyber security
• Providing email services for the campus community

In the evening we will host a networking social.

 

Tuesday, July 28

Day two of the conference will feature several "break-out" sessions focusing on both technical and policy issues. Topics will include a discussion of PKI on campus with information on the Higher Education Bridge Certification Authority (HEBCA) and Four Bridges Forum (4BF) and an overview of a unique Dartmouth collaboration of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff members working to improve the security of the College's information systems.

The registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, and snacks both days as well as the networking event on Monday evening.

Event Hosts

This workshop is co-hosted by the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS) and Peter Kiewit Computing Services (PKCS) at Dartmouth College.

The Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS)

The Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS) at Dartmouth College is dedicated to pursuing research and education to advance information security and privacy throughout society.

ISTS engages in interdisciplinary research, education and outreach programs that focus on information technology (IT) and its role in society, particularly the impact of IT in security and privacy broadly conceived. ISTS nurtures leaders and scholars, educates students and the community, and collaborates with its partners to develop and deploy IT, and to better understand how IT relates to socio-economic forces, cultural values and political influences. ISTS research improves our ability to:

• Design and deploy secure, usable computer systems and protect them from tampering, disruption and attack
• Enable people and organizations to communicate and exchange information securely and privately across networked computing devices
• Address social, economic and policy issues that arise in the development, deployment and regulation of such information technology

Goals of ISTS

• RESEARCH, to extend knowledge and provide insight and innovation in the area of information security
• EDUCATION, to increase the number of students and faculty involved in technology research, and to increase community awareness of privacy and security challenges and solutions related to IT
• OUTREACH, through collaborations that deploy technology and encourage knowledge transfer for both public and private benefit

Peter Kiewit Computing Services (PKCS)

Peter Kiewit Computing Services (PKCS) leads the institution in creating and managing the information technology environment of the College, and enables all members of the institution to use information resources effectively, productively, and securely in support of Dartmouth College's mission and goals.