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IT Strategies for Patriot Act Compliance in Higher Education

IT groups can minimize the potential disruptions of Patriot Act investigations by taking the lead on campus to pull together legal counsel, administration, and faculty to craft a clear process for handling investigations that will become more common, says Peter Siegel, CIO at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. . . .. Nearly three years after its enactment, the USA Patriot Act remains not just a political but also a technological issue on many college campuses. Unprepared or ill-prepared schools can find themselves facing network problems, service disruptions, and in the worse case FBI agents driving onto the campus with subpoenas to haul off PCs, servers, and computer log data. IT groups can minimize the potential disruptions of Patriot Act investigations by taking the lead on campus to pull together legal counsel, administration, and faculty to craft a clear process for handling investigations that will become more common, says Peter Siegel, CIO at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Siegel spoke this week at the annual conference of the Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) meeting in Chicago. "The status of dealing with the Patriot Act in higher education is very mixed," Siegel said. "Some people say, `What does this have to do with IT?' Others say, `We have [network] security professionals who work closely with law enforcement agencies.' There's not much in between, where you find people just ramping up [to deal with the Act]. For one thing, it's very hard to get people to share information about this." The link for this article located at nwfusion.com is no longer available. . Nearly three years after its enactment, the USA Patriot Act remains not just a political but also a . groups, minimize, potential, disruptions, patriot, investigations, taking. . Anthony Pell

Aug 04, 2004 • Anthony Pell Government