Re: FW: Residence Hall Virus Solutions

["Gordon D. Wishon" <gwishon () ND EDU>]

Mark, we cycled more than 2500 students through our 'mandatory' security
presentation for incoming students.  Considering our incoming freshman
class numbers only about 2100, we're very pleased with the results.  (The
remainder is attributed to transfers and interested upperclass.)

Gordon

At 10:06 AM 8/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> This is very interesting.
>
> How do you encourage students to attend these sessions?  Is attendance
> good?  Any thoughts to (or are you) doing these during mandatory floor
> meetings?
>
> --
> Mark S. Bruhn, CISSP, CISM
>
> Chief IT Security and Policy Officer
> Associate Director, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
> (http://cacr.iu.edu)
>
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> Indiana University
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tammy Clark [mailto:isttcx () LANGATE GSU EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:37 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] FW: Residence Hall Virus Solutions
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I started a student-centric security awareness program three years ago,
> staffed by student assistants (SAC's--Student Awareness Coordinators).
> They conduct presentations in the dorms and on campus, distribute media
> materials, etc.  They also created a web site last year that is going to
> be further developed after I hire this year's SAC's...  We warn students
> about the general alerts where an outside address is attempting
> connections to ports on their systems.  It's a challenge to educate them
> to the point where they understand and know how to effectively make use
> of the capabilities of the firewall.
>
> Tammy L. Clark, CISSP
> Information Security Officer
> Georgia State University
> tlclark () gsu edu
> 404-463-9612
> >>> allen () RESCOMP BERKELEY EDU 08/28/03 01:32 AM >>>
> How are you educating/dealing with residents regarding the Alerts that
> Zone Alarm gives off?  We've had a few residents with Zone Alarm ask us
> what to do about the 500 alerts they receive each day.
>
> ~---------------------------------~
>            Allen Chang
>  Lead Network Security Coordinator
>   Office of Residential Computing
>            UC Berkeley
> ~---------------------------------~
>
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Tammy Clark wrote:
>
> > We are then installing antivirus software and a personal firewall
> (free
> > version of ZoneAlarm) on their systems.  We also offer them an option
> to
> > conduct a self-check with an accompanying validation process.
>
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Gordon D. Wishon
Chief Information Officer
Associate Vice President/Associate Provost
University of Notre Dame
370 Information Technology Center
P.O. Box 539
Notre Dame, IN 46556-0539

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Email:  gwishon () nd edu

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