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Universities deal with an unprecedented amount of information, and store and transmit quite a diverse variety of important and confidential data, including the following:
» admissions applications, family background, grades and transcripts
» email, voicemail and telecommunication records
» medical records
» financial information: personal, departmental and institutional
» employment information, e.g., performance/disciplinary, payroll, beneficiaries for insurance purposes
»"customer" information (personal data entrusted to us by others) from individuals who register for events at Brown online, or who purchase materials from us, or who make library withdrawals
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How Are We All Doing?
 How strong is your password? How secure do you think your computer is? What about the Brown computing environment?
We've prepared a survey that will help us gauge how secure you feel the Brown computing environment is, and what you are doing to keep it that way.
The survey should take only a couple of minutes to complete (all questions are multiple-choice). «Survey Results» |
Q: What exactly does an Information Security Specialist do?
First, there is the routine day-to-day work of managing firewall rule changes, monitoring intrusion detection systems, and periodically performing vulnerability assessments of various departments on campus. We also give security training sessions through the CIS CompEd program. Last, and definitely not least, is my favorite part of the position: consulting with other groups and departments on their security concerns. This is the part of the position that lets me give Information Security a human face for our users.
Q: What's your background (education as well as experience)? What skills and experience do you bring to your job?
My undergraduate degree is actually in physics. I did a number of my classes out of the "normal" order, so by the time I took my computer science classes and realized that I probably should have been studying CS, I had too many credits in physics to go back and change my major.
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 When it's time to upgrade to a new computer, Brown University students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to purchase a Brown-recommended computer from Dell or Apple (visit the Buying a Computer or Printer web site for full details).
Once you have moved all of your critical programs and data to your new computer, however, you'll need to properly dispose of your old one.
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