CITES Fall Computer Security Day: Personalizing Security

With thousands of attacks aimed at campus computers each month protecting your course work, research, and privacy requires each of us to become savvy computer users. As part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month CITES is sponsoring its first annual Fall Computer Security Day.

October 25, 2004
10am - 3pm
Illini Union A, B and C

Free to all students, faculty, and staff, the day will be filled with opportunities to learn about keeping your computer and the data on it safe. Mini presentations will take place through out the day demonstrating easy and effective anti-spam and anti-virus techniques. Special events will take place for faculty as well as training opportunities for campus technical staff.

Activities for the day include:

• Information Booths covering topics such as password security, anti-virus solutions and other CITES services
• The introduction of Password Vault, a free, easy to use, and secure tool for storing all your usernames, passwords, pins, and other sensitive data
• A computer "First-Aid" station. Diagnosis and repair of viruses and removal of spyware will be available
• Presentations will be made through out that day on topics that are of interest to technical support staff and faculty
• Raffles for USB Flash Keys and an Apple iPod

Schedule of Presentations

Time	Topic	Presenter	Audience
10:15am	Directions in Security at Microsoft	George Corderio - Microsoft	Open/Technical Support Staff
11:15am	McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO)	Michael Glaser - McAfee	Open/Technical Support Staff
12:30pm	Roundtable: "The role of faculty in computer security"	Prof. Dick Mintel - Chair, Faculty and Cybersecurity Committee	Faculty
1:15pm	Using/Configuring IP Sec	Devin Gengelbach and Mark Hart - CITES	Open/Technical Support Staff
2:15pm	Roundtable: Open discussion w/Philip Zimmermann	Phil Zimmermann	Open/Technical Support Staff

Keynote Address
Phil Zimmermann
Beckman Auditorium
Topic: Personal Privacy in the Information Age
7pm

This event will be webcast here.  To view the video stream your computer must have a RealOne player installed, and a broadband connection to the Internet. If you don't have a RealOne player, you can get a free download and installation instructions here.

Philip R. Zimmermann is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy, an email encryption software package. Originally designed as a human rights tool, PGP was published for free on the Internet in 1991. This made Zimmermann the target of a three-year criminal investigation, because the government held that US export restrictions for cryptographic software were violated when PGP spread worldwide. Despite the lack of funding, the lack of any paid staff, the lack of a company to stand behind it, and despite government persecution, PGP nonetheless became the most widely used email encryption software in the world. After the government dropped its case in early 1996, Zimmermann founded PGP Inc. That company was acquired by Network Associates Inc (NAI) in December 1997, where he stayed on for three years as Senior Fellow. In August 2002 PGP was acquired from NAI by a new company called PGP Corporation, where Zimmermann now serves as special advisor and consultant. Zimmermann currently is consulting for a number of companies and industry organizations on matters cryptographic, and is also a Fellow at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.
http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/background/index.html

All are welcome and encouraged to attend.