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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2020 many institutions of higher secondary education have resorted to distance education, allowing courses to be taught in an online modality and allowing students, faculty, and staff to work from home or remote locations. Various educational and distance learning tools and technologies, such as electronic mail, learning management systems, video-teleconferencing systems and content management systems have evolved to support to support distant learners. This distributed nature of higher education has led to a greater reliance for authentication tools and processes to identify students and faculty. In addition, university researchers who conduct their research from home or remote locations have an increased threat or vulnerability to hackers and criminal organizations. Finally, the educational organization itself is under greater stress to comply with local, state, and federal regulations to conform to student confidentiality and privacy laws. This paper studies the impact that Working from Home (WFH) since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic has had to the workings of the Information Technology organization at a large public university in the State of Hawaii, with a focus on privacy and confidentiality issues and the resilience of the university.
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Bhattacharya, D., Ito, J. (2023). Working for Home – Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in University Education. In: Moallem, A. (eds) HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14045. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35822-7_29
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