Technology: Safeguarding Networks Is Priority No. 1

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

Protecting data and networks from hackers and thieves will continue to be a priority for college technology leaders in 2006.

Computer security is likely to be the most important information-technology concern in the next two to three years, said 30.4 percent of information-technology administrators who participated in 2005 in the Campus Computing Project, an annual survey of how colleges use information technology. In 2003 the figure was 21.2 percent.

The growing interest in