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Home » Penn 2018 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

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Penn 2018 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

In observance of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) this October, the ISC Office of Information Security (OIS) has partnered with Penn Schools and Centers to hold three major events for faculty, staff and students.

Free & Legal (Venom Movie Screening): This movie night for students is being hosted by OIS on October 11, 10:30 pm at Cinemark Theater on Walnut. The free screening of “Venom” will be preceded by a brief discussion on DMCA, Penn’s copyright policy and 2-Step Verification. This movie night is open to all Penn students, however, due to limited theater seating pre-event registration is required. 

To register for this event, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-legal-venom-movie-screening-tickets-50753715730

Kicking off Security Logging Question & Answer on October 11, 2018, 1:30 - 3:00 pm. OIS kicks off its first monthly Security Logging Question & Answer session at Van Pelt Library, room G101.7. The session is a dedicated opportunity to speak to Sam Jenkins, OIS Sr. IT Security Analyst, about ISC Security Logging Service (SLS) and the security logging in general. Have a query you’d like to refine or an alert you’d like to tune? Need help creating dashboards to share with your workgroup? In each session, we’ll answer your questions and help you work through your use cases.

Subsequent walk-in sessions are held on the second Thursday of every month at the same location and time.

V-STAR

Mike Sanker from ISC Office of Information Security (OIS) will present an overview of the Vendor Security Technical Assessment of Risk (V-STAR) tool including the following:

  • What is VSTAR
  • How and when it should be used
  • The role OIS and Schools and Centers play in the process
  • Examples of good and bad responses from vendors
  • How responses should be interpreted in the context of the service the vendor will be providing

Please come on October 25 to Sansom West Bits & Pieces, Room 306 at 2:00 pm with your questions about the VSTAR tool, and how to interpret vendor responses.

A must-attend Haaga Lecture by General H.R. McMaster on Democracy in the Crosshairs: Cyber Interference, Dark Money, and Foreign Influence. In collaboration with Penn Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), OIS is thrilled to co-sponsor the 2018 conference on Democracy in the Crosshairs: Cyber Interference, Dark Money, and Foreign Influence featuring a public session by General H.R. McMaster, United States Army, Ret. Distinguished Perry World House Visiting Fellow. This event will be held at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on Thursday, November 1, 2018, 4:30 - 6:00 pm.

Foreign Cyber Interference and Its Implications for Higher Education: OIS and the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) are hosting a timely discussion for the University of Pennsylvania community on the implications on foreign cyber interference and the University’s response to foreign cyber interference threats. Higher Education institutions behave in an open expression model potentially used by foreign entities to harvest research information and credentials.

Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Director of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, will present on foreign cyber interference and its impact on higher education institutions. Followed by a discussion on the effect of external interference on research, privacy and security at the University of Pennsylvania by Bob Desilets, Senior Information Security Analyst.

The event will be held at the Law School, Fitts Auditorium, on November 6th, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm. Please come early to grab lunch before the discussion. 

Seats are limited, so please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foreign-cyber-interference-and-its-implications-for-higher-education-tickets-51264192580 

 

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