Information Security Day 2007

Thursday, January 11,  8:30 - 4:45.    Location:  Room C20 Pomerantz Center (map)

The University of Iowa CIO and IT Security Office are sponsoring an Information Security Day for campus, with a number of informative sessions which you are invited to attend. This is an annual event planned to cover a variety of topics related to information security. Some topics are general and some are directed to persons in a more technical role. Feel free to attend individual sessions or the entire day.  Door prizes are being funded by the IT Professional Development Team.

Program: 

Time

Subject & Speaker

Audience

8:30 - 8:45  

Welcome -  Steve Fleagle, UI Chief Information Officer

General

8:45 - 9:00  

Opening Comments - Jane Drews, Security Office  

General

9:00 - 9:45  

Arming yourself with the Security Canon - Robert Vinson & Samuel Petreski, Security Office

An exploration of the security principles which encourage safe and reliable computing.

Technical

10:00- 10:45

Hunting the Wily Hacker - Craig Sorum, FBI 

Computer Intrusions - looking over the shoulder of a hacker and how victims can work with law enforcement to capture and prosecute these villains. 

General

11:00 – 11:45

Microsoft Security Strategy  – Barbara Chung, Microsoft 

A discussion of security strategy  by Microsoft's US Higher Education Security Advisor .

General

 LUNCH

 Break for Lunch - (not provided) 

 

1:00 -1:45 

Data Encryption - Aaron Howard, Security Office

Encryption concepts and management, how EFS works and best practices for using it, FDE (full disk encryption).

Technical

2:00 – 2:45

Searching for Stored SSN’s with Spider – Brian Heil, College of Business

How to configure, run, and analyze the results of using Cornell University’s Spider program on Windows.

General

3:00 – 3:45   

University of Iowa Security Recommendations for Vista - Guy Falsetti, ITS

Security recommendations proposed by the UI Microsoft Vista Security Committee as a result of testing the new operating system.

Technical

4:00 – 4:45   

Arming yourself with the Security Canon  

This is a repeat of the 9:00 am session.

Technical

 

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