Abstract:
Informationsecurity(IT)isanintenseissueofmodernday,duetodrasticincreasing application of computer, internet and internet user and intrusions. Various IT security approaches have been invented on this aspect while among them Soft IT Security approach (SITS) along with Robust IT Security-Balancing(RITS-B) approach are highly lucrative now-a-days due to its simplicity and effectiveness in the sector of Information security especially in Higher Education. Besides, Information technology security in higher education has become more of a management issue of securing the higher education environment without affecting the data integrity, accessibility, academic and intellectualfreedomwhichisthecoreofthehighereducationenvironment. Mostrecent trend suggest that Higher Education has a larger number of reported breaches among all sectors thus resulting an increased potential threats in upcoming days. Being an emerging state of IT in Higher Education in Bangladesh the empirical research scope on this field is a no denying fact. This paper has focused on case study of IT security environment from the mentioned perspective to draw on the direct experience of those able to provide insights into strategies, policies and practices of MIST and the efforts those they have emphasized more to secure their information arena. The case study systematically addressed many of the challenges brought more sharply into focus by information technologies from organizational value, belief and practice aspects. It has opened up few unsettled issues in present state of IT security environment of Higher Education framework of MIST to persuade them for future research for attaining a globally satisfactory shape for higher education information security.
