Information Studies

Are you fresh-out-of-college, or a young professional seeking a career in data science - but don’t know how to get [...]

Re-animation, taking photos with your mind, ransom threats that deal with a pig and viral videos. With those themes, Black [...]

It’s a new year and the start of the post-holiday news cycle, and I’ll be honest, I may still be [...]

Over winter break, I had the misfortune to tear my ACL while skiing. That meant surgical reconstruction, as well as [...]

It may seem inappropriate to quote President Reagan in the title of this post. A well-written and frightening book [...]

From an organizational standpoint, predictive analytics is the art of extracting information from heterogenous sources of data in order [...]

The age old-question of "What are the kids doing these days?" can be answered by yet another verb that's [...]

What is wayfinding? If you ask Wikipedia, you will find this definition: "Wayfinding encompasses all of the ways in which people and animals orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place to place."

You may have heard in the news recently the Syracuse city police department, was among a list of agencies to have their website hacked. In fact, we had some of the iSchool’s finest weigh in on the situation already. As someone who has a lot of experience administering servers and building web applications (although I have no inside knowledge of what happened in those police department cases), I thought I’d contribute with some general tips and best practices for keeping your website secure.

Information security folks are often the scapegoats in large organizations - they're the reason why you can't access this site, or why you can only choose between these two phones, or why your project is being delayed for security review. But these decisions aren't made to spite you, nor are they made at random. The drivers behind information security policy decisions are ones that try very hard to balance business needs and risk. Policies and procedures, while not glamorous, are absolutely essential to any large IT-enabled organization.