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Article: Athletics win with antivirus: low-cost, easy-to-deploy software defeats span at Penn State University.(Network Security)
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- Communications News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Universities and colleges often face a more challenging IT and network security challenge than typical corporate networks. With the rise of peer-to-peer (P2P), file sharing and MP3 trading, campuses have become a haven for viruses and spyware. By nature, these networks are fairly open and unsegmented. Penn State University is no exception.
"Part of the responsibility of our IT administrators is to recognize flaws and vulnerable points of contention within our e-mail program, systems and networks by proactively assessing and safeguarding them before any significant turmoil begins," says Philip Mansfield, systems administrator for intercollegiate athletics at Penn ...