Identity theft has been the biggest concern for IT administrators. In the recent issue of School CIO, two experts, Larry Wong, information technology security officer for the 140,000-student Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, Md., and Matthew Kinzie, director of information technology for the Stanislaus County Office of Education in Modesto, Calif., are here to embed the PC users guidelines on how to keep schools protected against identity theft and how to deal with identity thefts.
They say that Spyware, a malicious stuff, which keeps on infecting users’ PCs with ads—stolen equipement and phishing, which directs users to realistic-looking but false Web sites, are the most common and highly rampant areas that the majority of CIOs ought to be chary of.
Larry Wong, information technology security officer for the 140,000-student Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, Md.,
Unless you understand and know what ID theft is and how it happens, you really won’t know how to handle it.
However, Kinzie states that the majority of ID theft is related to the low-tech variety. Instead of the students, the employees are increasingly targeted by them. For instance, single method to obtain information is for somebody to give a call to a district office with just name of an employee, thereafter request one more bit of information, like work site. Single call may not look apprehensive however, it all includes.
