Virginia Community College System Utilizes TIPS for Incident Reporting and Management

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“With TIPS, we are now receiving reports in a timely fashion and can document all response efforts, saving countless hours and resources keeping track of information through e-mails, spreadsheets and meetings.” When an incident report is submitted via TIPS, an immediate notification is sent to each of the assigned team members at the campus location where the incident occurred and to assigned personnel at the system office.TIPS also provides a secure online document Vault, which allows VCCS to share system-wide and organization-specific policies, procedures, training, new updates, requirements, etc.Contact: Katie Weaver 402.730.0077 info@awareity.com www.awareity.com www.tipsprevent.com Lincoln, NE, April 13, 2012 --( PR.com )-- In an effort to keep up with information security risks and threats and improve the incident management process between the 23 Virginia Community Colleges and the system office, the Virginia Community College System has implemented TIPS, an innovative risk management software platform from Awareity.TIPS provides the Information Security Officers (ISOs) from each of the 23 colleges with a secure online incident reporting platform to report suspicious activities and incidents.Each incident type report form is then customized to gain critical information and details needed for investigation.“Before TIPS, it was often difficult to coordinate actions with each of the community college ISOs and keep track of all steps taken.“With TIPS, we are now receiving reports in a timely fashion and can document all response efforts, saving countless hours and resources keeping track of information through e-mails, spreadsheets and meetings.”When an incident report is submitted via TIPS, an immediate notification is sent to each of the assigned team members at the campus location where the incident occurred and to assigned personnel at the system office.

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