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Security Awareness October 2005

2. Security Awareness.. Information Security at DePaul. Who we areInformation Services - Business Continuity and Security Group (BCS)Web Sitesecurity.depaul.eduEmail Addresses for BCS teamBill Eaheart - weaheart@depaul.eduArlene Yetnikoff

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Security Awareness October 2005

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    1. Security Awareness October 2005

    2. 2 Security Awareness.

    3. 3 Security Awareness. Today’s Objectives Provide practical information for protecting yourself online Educate you in general guidelines for secure computing Questions and Answers Presentation available on: http://is.depaul.edu/security/information_security/presentations.asp

    4. 4 Security Awareness. Presentations Viruses and Spyware: Evil code “they” will try to get you to run and how to avoid it Spam and Phishing: Other bad, bad things that will show up in your mailbox Firewalls are your friends Identity Theft Top 10 Security Practices Questions

    5. 5 Security Awareness. Viruses and Worms http://onguardonline.gov/tutorials/index.html

    6. 6 Security Awareness. Viruses What do they look like? Attachment From someone you don’t know or someone you know very well Usually will have a very impersonal note in it How do they work? Automated Honor system What should you do when you get one? Delete key Stinger - http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

    7. 7 Security Awareness. Summary Use a Firewall (more to come) Keep operating systems updated Use anti-virus software Don’t click on attachments unless you know what it is

    8. 8 Security Awareness. Windows Update Microsoft provides security patches and updates Check for updates at least once per month Security fixes released on the second Tuesday of each month Manual Update Open Internet Explorer ? http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com Windows Automatic Updates makes this easy Start ? Control Panel ? Automatic Updates DePaul makes it even easier Software Update Services (SUS) server

    9. 9 Security Awareness. Viruses How can you prevent all viruses? How can you prevent many viruses? Install and keep updated anti-virus software Are some files more likely than others to carry viruses? Errrr…..well…..yes But don’t let that make you feel comfortable with other files.

    10. 10 Security Awareness. Virus Protection Available products Commercial McAfee Antivirus - http://www.mcafee.com/ Norton Antivirus - http://www.symantec.com/ Commercial/Freeware Avast! - http://www.avast.com/ AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/ http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 Checked on October 23, 2005 Online security check – http://www.symantec.com/cgi-bin/securitycheck.cgi http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ DePaul makes it even easier McAfee Anti-virus and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) Student download - http://netauth.depaul.edu/virusscan/

    11. 11 Security Awareness. Spyware Spyware Gathers information without your knowledge Available products Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware – Beta www.microsoft.com Popular Downloads – Windows AntiSpyware http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en Malicious Software Removal Tool http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ Spybot Search and Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/

    12. 12 Security Awareness. Next……. What else will turn up in your mailbox……

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