Abstract
Because IT security guidelines for universities and colleges mostly focus on hardware aspects, the problems such as security incidents by a user's mistake and personal information leakage by hacking are serious in our higher educational institutes. In order to solve these information protection and security problems in the educational institutes, realizable and implementable information protection and security guidelines which will contribute to escalate information protection level should be established and at the same time, specific guidelines should be provided to make the guidelines efficient. In this paper, the information security problems and cases are categorized to develop information security guidelines for the higher educational institutes in terms of short, mid, and long term aspects and the solutions to the problems are sought. In addition, a serious of approaches to the information security are proposed such as the improvement measures for the employees of the institute to have desirable security-minded, security problem prevention and resolving methods, developing conflict coordination procedure and law and regulation system establishment for making the educational institutes be information-oriented.
