The CSU, Sacramento Information Security Office works with the campus community to secure system and network resources, and protect the confidentiality of student, faculty, and staff information.
The mission of The Information Security Office at Sacramento State is to support the central mission of the University by assuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of its information and information systems.
The Information Security Office works with the campus community to secure system and network resources, and protect the confidentiality of student, faculty, and staff information. To support this mission, the Information Security Office will:
- Develop a strategic plan that represents campus’ strategic direction.
- Develop processes, procedures, and policies required for the protection of confidential information
- Identify risks to the security of information and systems. Mitigate these risks to levels acceptable to the campus
- Define security requirements, establish baselines and measure compliance, based on applicable laws, regulations, and best practices
- Consult with campus users and departments to investigate security issues and evaluate products and processess
- Collaborate with Information Resources administrators and technical staff to develop the campus information security strategy and architecture
- Ensure incident response and disaster recovery plans are developed and implemented
- Respond to and recover from disruptive and destructive information security events
- Increase campus awareness of information security through training and communication
 Security Alerts
Phishing is a criminal mechanism employing both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers’ personal identity data and financial account credentials. Social-engineering schemes use spoofed
e-mails purporting to be from legitimate businesses and agencies to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging financial data such as usernames and passwords. Technical subterfuge schemes plant crimeware onto PCs to steal credentials directly, often using systems to intercept consumers online account user names and passwords - and to corrupt local navigational infrastructures to misdirect consumers to counterfeit websites (or authentic websites through phisher-controlled proxies used to monitor and intercept consumers’ keystrokes). Read More
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Security news close to home
Stolen Stanford Laptop Contained
Posted on June 6th, 2008.
UC Irvine ID Theft Caused By United Health care Data Breach
Posted on June 3rd, 2008
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