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1 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org Security Matters It’s not about the network

2 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org What’s Your Biggest Threat? http://flickr.com/photos/mikeygottawa/533355476/

3 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org The Top 12 Security Threats Reported by CTOs 12. Extortion 11. Denial of Service (DoS) 10. Vandalism 9. Pharming 8. Phishing 7. Fraudulent Transaction

4 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org The Top 12 Security Threats Reported by CTOs 6. Physical Loss 5. Unauthorized Access by Outsiders 4. Malware 3. Spam 2. Unauthorized Access by Insiders 1. Insider Misuse –Source: http://www.computereconomics.com/article.cfm?id=1214

5 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org The Top 2 (and #6) Security Threats The Cost of an “Inside Job” Four in ten IT managers report incidents involving non-compliance while another 27 percent have seen unintentional release of corporate information. A typical incident requires 22 IT employee hours to remediate.

6 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org Security Philosophy Control What You Can 0’s and 1’s, not people. Network, workstations, devices, applications, files.

7 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org Control What You Can Networks NAT Routers Integrated VPN Dynamic IP addresses Wireless - closed http://flickr.com/photos/abbyladybug/9 30518276/

8 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org Control What You Can Workstations Firewalls Antivirus Anti-spyware Spam filtering Internet filtering (?) Backups http://flickr.com/photos/53088165@N00/579761138/

9 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org Control What You Can In the Cloud Enough seats for all users Independent passwords Automatic logout Required password changes http://flickr.com/photos/86778817@N00/88641569/

10 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org Control What You Can Devices / Drives Passwords for all devices and drives Encryption for files stored on devices and drives http://flickr.com/photos/ian-s/2152798588/

11 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org Security Philosophy IT’s More than Digital In 2008…each man, woman, and child will use 4,847 sheets of the office paper, 36 sheets fewer than 2007. –Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/184744007.html

12 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org Security Philosophy Plug the Biggest Holes Prioritize! –Risk = Value of Asset x Severity of Vulnerability x Likelihood of Attack –Source: http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/cache/568165-0-0-0-121.html

13 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org Security Philosophy Plan for Failure Know how you will respond to security breaches in terms of IT Plan for notifying important parties - it’s the law!

14 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org Security Philosophy Train for Success Ultimately, your success relies on your people Try Disaster Days trainings (make it fun!) Make security issues part of your regular communications

15 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org Security Resources HP Security Risk Assessment –http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/cache/568165-0-0-0-121.html TechSoup Healthy and Secure Computing –http://www.techsoup.org/hsc/ CERT Octave –http://www.cert.org/octave/ SANS Reading Room –http://sans.org/ Security Focus –http://www.securityfocus.com/ NSA Security Confirguration Guides –http://www.nsa.gov/snac/

16 People Who Change the World Need the Tools to Do it! www.nten.org Holly Ross, Executive Director holly@nten.org As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. - Bill Gates, founder Microsoft


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