The Future of IT in Higher Education

Security Breaches Hitting Our Universities

The news during 2006 has been filled with stories about critical and in some cases devastating IT security breaches. Many of these stories involve hackers accessing the personal data of hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting individuals. Most recently a very large and reputable university in southern California had their database compromised by a hacker who was able to gather private information about faculty, students, parents and alumni. The hacker had access to the university database for an entire year before it was detected.

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Complete Campus IT Management for University Business Services

Quest Software’s Solutions for Higher Education help institutions manage complex application environments. The success or failure of mission-critical IT applications, like those identified above, have the potential to greatly impact teaching, learning and business dynamics at colleges and universities. As the demand for IT services increases, the pressure to meet compliance, auditing and security initiatives also grows. 

Campus IT services should strive to:

1. Provide a framework of Web-based communications services that integrates all elements of the university (academic, administrative and community) and all business applications
2. Be available to all constituents 24 hours a day, seven days a week
3. Offer a high level of service with rapid response times
4. Secure and protect critical information in accordance with industry and governmental compliance standards
5. Support a single log-on to obtain authentication and authorization for all information resources and applications

Unifying the digital campus requires the merging of an institution’s three most valuable assets: its intellectual identity, constituents and business systems and services. The ability to leverage these assets is directly related to the success of the university. Quest Software helps institutions meet their strategic goals by simplifying IT management and mitigating the risks involved with complex IT projects.

Library and Research for Higher Education
Ensure access to university intellectual property with consistently available and high-performing library management systems.

ERP for Higher Education
Provide unparalleled visibility into change, methodical workflow and deep domain expertise throughout your student administration, human resources and financial management application lifecycle.

Campus Portal for Higher Education
Ensure that campus business services are meeting service level agreements.

Web Services for Higher Education
Simulate transactions to determine if critical Web self-serve functions are available and performing at established service levels.

E-Learning for Higher Education
Maintain availability and performance of E-Learning modules over the Web and internal university networks.

Security and Identity Management for Higher Education
Avoid dangerous security breaches and extend Active Directory to Unix, Linux, and Java systems.

Messaging Systems for Higher Education
Reduce administrative burden, satisfy end-user expectations and meet the critical business objectives of your organization’s messaging systems.

Change and Compliance for Higher Education
Ensure high performance, productivity and regulatory compliance with the same budget dollar.