This past semester, five students at the Anderson School of Management developed a program to educate and raise awareness on how to safeguard information at the University of New Mexico. They also plan to provide the program to Albuquerque and New Mexico businesses and institutions.
The five graduate students, all involved in the Security Education Training and Awareness (SETA) project, created a comprehensive online content and delivery system to assist employers, managers, and supervisors in educating, training, and assessing their staff in the proper handling of information.
The project provides information regarding best practices in protecting computer systems, common threats from social engineering, and technology used in protecting commercial transactions. The students’ project was sponsored by UNM’s Center for Information Assurance Research and Education (CIARE). The SETA modules will be available for download later this month from the center’s Web site at http://ia.unm.edu.
CIARE was established in 2006 by the UNM to advance the regional application, management, and knowledge of information assurance (IA) and information security (InfoSec) through educational programs, business practice development and scholarly research.
Its mission is also to assist with the emerging information assurance and information security needs of the local and regional constituents and the university community. UNM received the designation as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance by the NSA and DHS last spring and was a unique selection with its multidisciplinary approach between technology and management.
The students will present their project to the CIARE’s directors and the University's Chief Information Officer Barney Maccabe on Thursday, Dec. 13 at 10:30 a.m. at the Anderson Schools.
Maccabe has already expressed interest in implementing the student’s project for the entire university. The CIO is charged with strategic leadership for the integration of Information Technology (IT) related functions across the UNM campus. Once accepted, the information would be easily accessible to all UNM staff, faculty and students via the website and eventually there are plans to make it available to other Albuquerque businesses and government institutions with slight modifications to fit their needs.
Contact: Leslie Venzuela, (505) 277-7117; e-mail: venzuela@mgt.unm.edu
Posted by scarr at December 11, 2007 04:44 PM