Protecting Private Information: Addressing the Challenge in Higher Education Institutions

Speaker: Joshua Alpern, VP Sales Engineering, Applimation
Where: Your PC
When: Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Time: 10:30 AM CT

Protecting sensitive data is a significant challenge for any organization that collects and stores information about individuals. Institutions of higher education are especially susceptible to this challenge as student information accumulates year after year. Regulatory compliance standards such as FERPA, also put pressure on educational institutions to protect student education records. Consequences of noncompliance can be severe if data is lost or compromised.

Production enterprise applications at universities and colleges that store this sensitive data have robust security models that restrict access to authorized users. However, non-production application environments (used for development and testing purposes) are often much less secure despite containing the same sensitive data. These non-production environments therefore represent a particular vulnerability for any organization trying to protect sensitive information.

In this session you will learn how to effectively protect these non-production environments using a proven, automated software solution. You will also learn how to adhere to regulatory compliance standards by efficiently provisioning production and non-production systems that comply with privacy requirements.