Cloud Computing Resources

IU Resources

Instructional Resources

Campus Resources

Centers or offices of teaching and learning should be able to provide information regarding the use of third party "cloud" materials for instructional purposes. Begin with the appropriate office on your campus.

Non-IU Resources

EDUCAUSE/Internet2

NIST

World Privacy Forum

Other Higher Education Resources

Security & Policy Blog Posts

  • A local, unprivileged user can use a Linux kernel flaw to gain escalated privileges, without authentication, on a system running a Linux kernel. Technical details, as well as exploit code, have been publically released.
  • S/MIME certificates are now available to all IU personnel at no cost.
  • IU VP for IT and Chief Information Officer, Brad Wheeler, spoke at a town hall meeting on March 8th on the subject of, “Mitigating Cyber Risks,” including the current risk environment, and the development of IT-28.
  • As Jacqueline Simmons explains, IU operates in a complex legal, regulatory, & contractual environment, with responsibilities to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, & contractual requirements regarding safeguards over information and information assets. Doing so protects the university's reputation & minimizes the risk of negative financial consequences associated with noncompliance.

    Recent Security Bulletins

  • This bulletin details four recently published, critical rated, vulnerabillies in Adobe ColdFusion and ways to mitigate the risk of them being exploited including the hotfix for supported versions.
  • As the use of Java applets on websites continues to diminish and in light of the rash of recent vulnerability exploits, the implications of installing Java for use in web browsers should be considered carefully.
  • On January 10, 2013, security researchers reported a zeroday vulnerability in Oracle Java 1.7u10.
  • On November 5th, 2012, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) website announced their researcher had discovered a vulnerability in the way some versions of Symantec Endpoint Protections handle CAB files. This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated remote or local attacker to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a targeted computer.