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Colleges throughout the world are in essence a miniature city with all the problems of any major metropolis, this includes high-tech theft and privacy issues. For every problem you've heard about in a major regulated industry, the same concerns happen in higher education. As a student or parents of a student, you may think you've prepared you for this new journe

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

y, but safe and practical computing should also be part of every college student's entrance to their university.

How Serious is the Campus Security Threat?
Over the past 12 months, numerous Universities across the country have been hit with major security breaches:

• Ohio University had over 5 separate cases of identity theft within a month solel

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

caused by poor security measures on school databases.
• In mid December 2006 the University of California at Los Angeles reported a hacking incident that left nearly a million members of the UCLA community vulnerable to identity theft. The hacking went on undetected for nearly 13 months.

Along with these two schools, nearly 50 other incidents involv

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ing universities have occurred within the past 12 months.

How Vulnerable is Campus Data?
The vast majority of universities rely on large, moderately-protected networks to store data on anyone related to the organization: its students, staff, faculty, and even applicants. This data is housed on these servers with limited security capabilities. Thes

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

vulnerabilities have caused major problems for students and faculty in schools all across the country.

When a prospective student applies to schools they must provide information such as name, high school, SAT scores, parents names. Many applications require in-depth parental information, asking for occupation, income, tax information, social security numbers

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

nd degrees earned.

When Universities receive this information it's stored in their database and added to the masses of other applications from that year and previous years. Not only are many of these personal questions unnecessary to deem a student worthy for admittance, but the weak college computer networks lead to easy access to that information. Privacy and

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

ID theft issues arise not only with students enrolled in the University, but also with people who've simply applied to the college.

Student Network Threat
Along with applicant data stored on campus servers, many schools also have multiple networks which allow students to store their own documents and files. Many schools do not invest in strong se

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

urity for networks because they feel that much of this information is useless to others outside the network. What college IT departments don't realize is that many of these documents are just as valuable to other students within the University.

If a student writes a term paper for their class, there are very few security measures preventing another student from

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

hacking into the network and stealing that paper to sell or turn it in for another class. If students can't feel secure about their work being plagiarized, then the legitimacy of the entire school becomes jeopardized and it becomes a much poorer educational environment.

Online Access to Student Records
The amount of access each student has to the

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

r own collegiate records on one simple "protected" website is astounding. Nearly every University has its own student-oriented network, usually called "My-SchoolName" where students can access everything about themselves like:

• Grades
• ID numbers
• Financial Aid
• College credit card information
• Home and School Residence Addresses

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

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Not only are these sites hackable, but with the accelerated pace of the average student's day, it's very likely that he or she will forget to close out of the site on their laptop or forget to log out on a public computer. Much of the information contained on these sites is unnecessary and ends up being a one stop shop for college students and for hackers.

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ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

tudents can find everything from a complete history of financial aid records to their healthcare information. Colleges need to identify what information is appropriate for students to have 24/7 access to, and which information is best dealt with face-to-face, like Financial Aid.

Grade and Personal Information via Email
Recently, professors and Tea

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

her's Assistants (TAs) have begun emailing grades to eager students who can't wait for their grades to be posted online. In other settings emailing test results is considered a breach of privacy. A number of instructors don't really care what happens to these grades, so they do not take any security precautions, such as encryption, when sending them off.

Major

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

Universities often have many students with similar last names, often in the same classes. This causes many issues because when tired professors send out grades late at night, it is very likely that they will email them to the wrong Smith or Lee. While grades might be minute when compared to SSNs or credit card information, many students prefer to keep such thing

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

as their Semester's results their own business.

Managing Student IDs
All around college campuses, student identification numbers have become one of the most convoluted aspects of life around campus. At come campuses, managing your college IDs could be its own course. For example, students at Cornell University have separate ID numbers for course

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As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

egistration, tests and exams, laundry services, food, transportation and other campus activities

Problems surrounding an ID system like this is that if a student forgets a certain number to a campus service, they must go through the basic password retrieval system to get their ID's sent to them. Most schools simply send an email without any other security preca

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

utions; aside asking for the email address. Not only could passwords easily be sent to other people, but the unencrypted emails could easy be intercepted along the way. Unsecured email not only leaves your school records in jeopardy, but also opens young adults to years of credit monitoring due to ID theft.

The Future of College Security
As securi

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

y problems increase on campuses, Universities have made few steps towards finding proper defensive measures to protect students and staff. Unless Universities step up considerably in the short period, security issues on campus will continue to rise at a significant rate.

Major Universities have become prime candidates for hackers over the past few years thanks

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As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

to their moderately lax on-campus networks and poor security measures taken by students. Aside from tips on how to make a "strong" password and obvious solutions on how to prevent yourself from breaches such as always logging off from secure sites when you step away from your computer, schools are ill-equipped to deal with these breaches.

Unless schools step up

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

to the plate and begin upgrading their security policies, we will continue to hear about more horror stories about affected students, faculty, and alumni from major Universities. Students pay Universities thousands upon thousands of dollars to get a top-notch education. They can at least expect is that their school will treat them with top-notch security as well

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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