Education institutions often encompass a cross-section of stakeholders who rely on open, accessible data networks for teaching, admissions, research, healthcare, e-mail, and online classes. Increasingly, these data networks contain personal information that must be protected with new controls in accordance with regulations such as FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA, USA Patriot Act, PCI and emerging state-level legislation. These challenges are illustrated by the fact that nearly 50% of all reported U.S. data breaches occurred in higher education institutions. Coalfire offers services specifically adapted to the unique requirements found in education. Whether the requirement is to design an IT security program, validate the institution to the PCI standard for payment card acceptance, respond to an incident or provide policy input, Coalfire has the experience, staff and credentials to provide a full range of IT security and audit services for education.

Source: Identity Theft Resource Center, 2006 survey

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