School Security :: April 8, 2008
Taxing the System
Eager to comply with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which addresses concerns over access to "offensive" Internet content on school and library computers, the Poway Unified School District made a move this year to ensure that its 33,000 students are kept as far away as possible from such content. By beefing up its Internet content-filtering, the San Diego, CA district also put itself in the position to qualify for federal grants not accessible to schools that don't comply with CIPA....
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School Security News
Survey Shows Security Convergence Popular but Elusive
A survey by Honeywell released Wednesday reveals that although some organizations are integrating physical security measures such as video surveillance and access control with traditional IT security system, significant barriers to convergence still exist....
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Microsoft Joins MIT Kerberos Consortium
The MIT Kerberos Consortium has added Microsoft to its ranks of formal industry supporters. The company joined the group Monday as a founding sponsor, gaining a seat on the executive board, which also includes representatives from Apple, Sun, Google, and, of course, MIT itself. Microsoft's director of Windows Core Security, Slava Kavsan, will occupy the board seat....
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Vantage, 8e6 Partner for Safe Search for Schools
Ed tech developer Vantage Learning and security technology provider 8e6 have teamed up to launch a new secure Internet search engine designed specifically for K-12 school districts. The partnership combines Vantage's iSEEK "natural language" search engine with 8e6's Web filtering to provide targeted searches for academic users while excluding material that might be deemed potentially inappropriate for school-aged kids....
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Compliance Framework Database Updated
Consulting and publishing firm Network Frontiers has released the Q1 2008 Unified Compliance Framework (UCF), a database used in compliance management systems. UCF maps hundreds of regulations, including privacy information, HIPPA, PCI-DDS and Medicaid/Medicare mandates, into a master hierarchal framework. This latest version of the UCF consolidates cross platform configuration management controls into a single set of controls....
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Clarkston Schools Deploys iTrust To Secure Internet Usage
Clarkston Community Schools has selected DeepNines iTrust, a multi-layer security defense system that guards against unauthorized Internet usage while prioritizing network traffic....
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Baltimore Deploys Parent Notification Program
Baltimore City Public Schools this month announced that it has implemented Global Connect's Parent Notification System for communicating with parents and staff members. The school district, which serves about 82,000 students, will begin using the Global Connect system in May....
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Network-based Alarm System Sends Silent Alert
A Spokane, WA company has developed a computer network-based alarm system that allows users to trigger an emergency alarm through their computers to send a silent alert to all other users logged into the same network. Pentad Systems' LANalarm could complement text messaging-based notification systems, which tend to have a lag between the time the emergency is communicated to administrators and the notification is actually sent out to participants....
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Cypress-Fairbanks Deploys Network Monitoring Tool
Network management software developer Ipswitch announced that the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD), a large public school district in the state of Texas, has selected WhatsUp Gold to monitor and manage its wide area network (WAN) infrastructure....
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Web Gateway Offers All-in-One Web Security
Astaro Corp. has announced a security appliance line that integrates URL filtering, malware detection, application control, and bandwidth optimization. The Astaro Web Gateway is deployed as a hardware or virtualized appliance and managed through a single browser-based graphical interface....
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Free Software Identifies Applications Requiring Administrator Rights
Enterprises can now more easily determine which applications their employees run that require administrative rights, a condition that makes the environment more susceptible to malicious users and viruses and prevents compliance with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and HIPAA. BeyondTrust’s free Application Rights Auditor automatically identifies and reports Windows applications that need elevated user rights....
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Coming Up
April 9-12, 2008
2008 NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.nctm.org/meetings
April 13-16, 2008
TechEd 2008: 13th Annual Technology in Education Conference & Exposition
Ontario, CA
http://www.techedevents.org
April 22, 2008
11th Annual Educational Technology Coordinators Conference
Macomb, MI
http://www.macul.org/page.php?pid=58
April 22-25, 2008
Designing the 21st Century Classroom (New Orleans) 2008
New Orleans, LA
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/new_orleans.htm
April 24-25, 2008
2008 NETA Spring Technology Conference
Omaha, NE
http://www.netasite.org
April 27-May 2, 2008
Interop Las Vegas 2008
Las Vegas, NV
http://www.interop.com/lasvegas
April 30-May 1, 2008
MICCA 2008
Baltimore, MD
http://www.miccaonline.org/conference.htm
May 4-5, 2008
Security Professionals Conference 2008
Arlington, VA
http://www.educause.edu/SecurityConference
May 4-6, 2008
Leading Learning Conference '08
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
http://www.leadinglearning.org/
May 4-6, 2008
CMMA 2008 Professional Development Conference
Baltimore, MD
http://www.cmma.net/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3502
May 5-6, 2008
AALF 21 Steps to 21st Century Learning Institute
Lambertville, NJ
http://http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?5S,M3,78a07057-86d6-460c-be10-f86fef877f0c
May 7-8, 2008
Educause Policy Conference 2008
Arlington, VA
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=1477&bhcp=1
May 9, 2008
DLA 2008 Annual Conference
Dover, DE
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/dla/conf/index.htm
May 13-15, 2008
18th Annual CardTech/SecurTech Conference & Exhibition
Orlando, FL
http://www.sourcemediaconferences.com/CTST08/
May 16, 2008
Tech Forum West 2008
Long Beach, CA
http://techlearning.com/events/techforum/west08/
May 18-20, 2008
Ed Tech Industry Summit 2008
San Francisco, CA
http://siia.net/etis
May 19-23, 2008
TechMentor 2008
Orlando, FL
http://www.techmentorevents.com/
May 20-23, 2008
18th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy
New Haven, CT
http://www.cfp2008.org/
May 22-23, 2008
Designing the 21st Century Classroom 2008
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/los_angeles.htm
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