Information Security Awareness Contest

Educause Poster and Video Contest for 2011!

I would like to start out by introducing everyone to the Educause Poster and Video Contest for 2011. I feel the best way to describe what it is about is a screen capture from their website.

The website is: http://www.educause.edu/SecurityVideoContest2011

The topics for the contest are as follows:

Ideas for topics include, but are not limited, to:

• Computer security
• Antimalware (antivirus/antispyware) software
• Botnets
• Firewalls
• Operating system updates
• Software/application updates
• Cybersafety/staying safe online
• Cyberbullying
• Cybercrime (e.g., denial of service, extortion, identity theft, or web defacement)
• Phishing
• Protecting yourself online and safe social networking
• Passwords and passphrases
• Physical security
• Securing access to sensitive, nondigital information
• Securing equipment that is either valuable or contains sensitive information (or both)
• Social engineering
• Safeguarding data/information
• Encrypting files/e-mails with sensitive data
• Why encrypt e-mail?
• Protecting confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data
• Security of wireless/mobile devices
• Security risks of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing

A strong supporter of Educause and the contest is CyberWatch. The ultimate goal for CyberWatch is “to improve information assurance education at all levels: high school, associate, baccalaureate, and advanced degree levels.”

Here is a screen capture from CyberWatch explaining the mission, vision, and goals of the organization.

CyberWatch has a great slide show overview in PDF format that explains a lot as well. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, found HERE. I suggest that everyone get involved with CyberWatch and become a registered member. It is FREE and easy!!!

My partner and I have been looking into Wireless/Mobile Security combined with Safeguarding Data/Information for the contest. One source I found particularly interesting was:

Debbah, Merouane, et al. "Wireless physical layer security." EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2009). Academic OneFile. Web. 14 Nov. 2010.

Document URLhttp://find.galegroup.com/gtx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=AONE&docId=A234053592&source=gale&userGroupName=niagara_main&version=1.0

You may not be able to follow the above link unless you have access to Niagara County Community Collage’s library online so that is why I supplied the original source of the information.

Merouane Debbah presents a technical write up explaining wireless physical layer security. There is a lot of technical verbage in this paper so you will want a dictionary handy if you are not familiar with some of the technical language involved.

So get inspired and enter the contest, and do not forget to become a member of CyberWatch!!!!!!!!!