About AITP
AITP is a professional association comprised of career minded individuals who seek to expand their potential -- employers, employees, managers, programmers, and many others. The organization seeks to provide avenues for all their members to be teachers as well as students and to make contacts with other members in the IT field, all in an effort to become more marketable in rapidly changing, technological careers.
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AITP Chapter 3022
Date: 10/20/2010
Topic: Information Security
“Concepts and Best Practices”
Understanding “Threat Modeling”
Guest Speaker: Nathan Reynolds
Information Systems Specialists
Farm Credit MidSouth
Start Time: 12:00
End Time: 1:00
Attendance Number: 30+
Materials: Information Security Presentation
Threats Identified
Actors
- Scammers
- Hackers
- Government/Corporations
Agents
- Malware
- Viruses, worms, spyware
Vulnerabilities Identified
System Flaws and Social Flaws
- Code
- End Nodes
- Wireless
- Flash Drives
- Physical Security
- People
What’s at Risk?
Passwords
ID
Financial Information
Classified Data
Attack Vectors Identified
Software
Malware
Network Protocols
Phishing emails, sites, links, applications
People
Social Media Sites
Protecting Your computer
Software Updates
Personal Firewall
Anti-Malware
Run computer as “Standard User”
Protect Wireless Networks
Passwords
- Should be complex
Be aware
- Social Networking sites
- Blogs
- Financial Sites
Keep Control of your accounts
Real World Examples
Spoof Sites(Fake or Non-secure web sites requesting personal information)
Hijacking(man in the middle attack on wireless networks)
What’s the reason for all of this?
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
