EDUCAUSE Publications

• Data Protection Primer for Higher Education: Environmental Considerations, Culture, and Practices

  • May 16, 2022
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  This paper defines data protection as “the principles and processes for protecting data from corruption, misapplication, compromise, misuse, and loss.” Data protection leverages evolving technology and emerging practices to focus on how to apply the three critical information security imperatives: confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

• TCO for Cloud Services: A Framework

  • April 24, 2015
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  One of the common justifications for moving to cloud services is cost savings, but the data are often insufficient to support such claims due to the inherent challenges in effectively identifying and comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for both cloud-based and on-premises fulfillment of IT services.