Identity Theft And Data Loss On Campus— Minimizing And Addressing Risk

Originally published in The 2007/08 URMIA Journal, published annually by the University Risk Management and Insurance Association (URMIA).

Abstract: The dawn of the cyber age has brought the development of new methods for obtaining, transmitting, and storing amounts of information more vast than the human mind can fully comprehend. Yet these advances in technology have also introduced their share of challenges, especially for colleges and universities who can now keep hundreds of thousands of constituent records in computerized systems. For these institutions, the threat of such information becoming compromised is very real. This article will discuss what is happening in regard to breaches of security, how it is happening, and what preventive measures institutions may employ to minimize the likelihood and impact of these cyber attacks.