Information Risks at Universities

Abstract

Universities, like other businesses, use information communication technology (ICT) to promote globally the opportunities of knowledge sharing, provide students and teachers the proper information and knowledge, and facilitate the administration and management decision making. Consequently, the chance of compromising the valuable assets is high. Compromising could be represented by the absence of confidentiality, availability or integrity (CIA) that could affect a university reputation negatively in addition to the cost.Therefore, universities should identify the risks that could infringe and exploit the vulnerabilities of the information systems in order to keep their assets away from malicious breaches by imposing the suitable precautions and controls in the university.

Keywords: Risk assessment, IT at university, Security at university, Common risks, Cyber security.