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Jeffrey M. Stanton, Ph.D. and Kathryn R. Stam, Ph.D., Principals

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Since August, 2001 the SISE project has offered assistance and support to a variety of Central New York area organizations. Much of our work is confidential in nature and we are obliged by research ethics not to release the names of our partner organizations unless they have agreed to publicly acknowledge their partnerships with the SISE project and Syracuse University. The projects we have undertaken have occurred in approximately 25 Central New York organizations and have included the following activities:

bulletNetwork Assessment
bulletTechnology vendor research
bulletRequest for Proposals Development
bulletOrganizational Development
bulletDatabase Design and Development
bulletNew System Deployment Feedback
bulletOrganizational Security Assessment

Our current project, the Secure Business Initiative (SBI) focuses on the latter activity. Organizations that partner with the SISE project on an SBI Organizational Security Assessment can take advantage of the following project offerings:

bulletInterviews with key stakeholders and decision makers to articulate the organization's security priorities
bulletNetwork Architecture Assessment to understand strengths and opportunities for improvement to technical security facilities
bulletRapid Response Employee Survey to provide input on employees' beliefs and expectations about security preparedness
bulletAssistance with selection and deployment of vulnerability scanning tools that the organization's IT staff can use to uncover database, web, remote access, wireless and other technical vulnerabilities in IT operations
bulletAnalysis, recommendation, and assistance with development and deployment of security-related organizational policies
bulletDevelopment of criteria and candidate lists for vendors of security services and products
bulletProvision of a comprehensive report on the organization's strengths and development opportunities with respect to information security, e-commerce, and related areas

For more information, please contact Isabelle Fagnot, M.S., at (315) 443-7267 or iyamodo[at]syr.edu. The SBI has recently been written up in the Syracuse Record.

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