Roundup 2006: doing their homework

For college students these days, instant messaging is as much a part of their daily routine as microwaving ramen noodles, playing Frisbee on the quad or studying on the futon. “When a student comes to campus, it’s the first thing they want hooked up,” says Seth Shestack, acting CISO at Temple University, Philadelphia, the nation’s 28th largest college with a student population of 35,000. “Our help desk will get calls faster for students who can’t connect to IM than for email being down.”

With that demand for undisturbed IM access comes the need for the university’s IT team to secure a communications means that is quickly becoming a preferred attack vector...

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