Why is it a challenge to sell the security concept within an academic organization?
DB: Demonstrating to the user that “secured” does not mean a loss of functionality and utility is one problem. On a personal level, people say, “I dont want my machine to be harder to use.” On the institutional level, people discuss the larger questions of academic freedom, freedom of information, and the exchange of ideas. Years of movement towards equal access makes the university enterprise systems differ from corporate ones. Corporations devise methods to secure information, traditionally through strong hierarchical control of resources and personnel. Most security solutions are designed for corporations where the user has been assimilated and will obey or be terminated. University staff, especially faculty, rightly resent such treatment and are not shy about communicating this news. “Who would want my stuff anyway?” is a common refrain of disbelief from users with compromised systems. Corporations, by their nature, wish to protect their information, because intellectual property i
