This document outlines the topics to be covered in a course on information security. The course is divided into 5 parts that cover topics such as access control, cryptography, risk analysis, business continuity planning, data classification, security awareness, computer systems security, telecommunications security, organization architecture, legal and regulatory issues, investigations, application security, physical security, operations security, information ethics, and policy development. Each topic is briefly described with its key elements and considerations. The document also discusses the Computer Security Act of 1987 and outlines the steps for developing a comprehensive security program.
CISSP Prep: Ch 1: Security Governance Through Principles and PoliciesSam Bowne
These are slides from a college course. For more info see https://samsclass.info/125/125_S16.shtml
This chapter is from an awful (ISC)2 book I abandoned. All further chapters use a much better textbook.
Information systems in the digital age are complex and expansive, with attack vectors coming in from every angle. This makes analyzing risk challenging, but more critical than ever.
There is a need to better understand the dynamics of modern IT systems, security controls that protect them, and best practices for adherence to today’s GRC requirements.
These slides are from our webinar covering topics like:
· Threats, vulnerabilities, weaknesses – why their difference matters
· How vulnerability scanning can help (and hinder) your efforts
· Security engineering and the system development lifecycle
· High impact activities - application risk rating and threat modeling
What are the important objectives of Cybersecurity.pdfBytecode Security
The objectives of cybersecurity are to protect computer systems, networks, data, and digital assets from a wide range of cyber threats and vulnerabilities. These objectives aim to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and systems.
https://www.bytec0de.com/cybersecurity/
History, What is Information Security?, Critical Characteristics of Information, Components of an
Information System, Securing the Components, Balancing Security and Access,
Definitive Security Testing Checklist Shielding Your Applications against Cyb...Knoldus Inc.
The protection of applications against cyber threats is paramount. With hackers becoming increasingly sophisticated, organizations must prioritize robust security testing practices. In this informative session, we will unveil a comprehensive security testing checklist designed to fortify your applications against potential vulnerabilities and attacks.
CISSP Prep: Ch 1: Security Governance Through Principles and PoliciesSam Bowne
These are slides from a college course. For more info see https://samsclass.info/125/125_S16.shtml
This chapter is from an awful (ISC)2 book I abandoned. All further chapters use a much better textbook.
Information systems in the digital age are complex and expansive, with attack vectors coming in from every angle. This makes analyzing risk challenging, but more critical than ever.
There is a need to better understand the dynamics of modern IT systems, security controls that protect them, and best practices for adherence to today’s GRC requirements.
These slides are from our webinar covering topics like:
· Threats, vulnerabilities, weaknesses – why their difference matters
· How vulnerability scanning can help (and hinder) your efforts
· Security engineering and the system development lifecycle
· High impact activities - application risk rating and threat modeling
What are the important objectives of Cybersecurity.pdfBytecode Security
The objectives of cybersecurity are to protect computer systems, networks, data, and digital assets from a wide range of cyber threats and vulnerabilities. These objectives aim to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and systems.
https://www.bytec0de.com/cybersecurity/
History, What is Information Security?, Critical Characteristics of Information, Components of an
Information System, Securing the Components, Balancing Security and Access,
Definitive Security Testing Checklist Shielding Your Applications against Cyb...Knoldus Inc.
The protection of applications against cyber threats is paramount. With hackers becoming increasingly sophisticated, organizations must prioritize robust security testing practices. In this informative session, we will unveil a comprehensive security testing checklist designed to fortify your applications against potential vulnerabilities and attacks.
Slides for a college CISSP prep course. Instructor: Sam Bowne
Taught online for Coastline Community College and face-to-face at City College San Francisco.
Based on: "CISSP Study Guide, Third Edition"; by Eric Conrad, Seth Misenar, Joshua Feldman; ISBN-10: 0128024372.
More information at https://samsclass.info/125/125_F17.shtml
Information technology is a complex business, at best. While IT can provide amazing benefits, it still requires vigilance and diligence to ensure it is running correctly and that it is secure. A security framework can be an excellent tool to evaluate what you might be missing and confirm that what you are already doing is spot-on correct. This session will discuss the importance of using security frameworks and walk attendees through the NIST Cyber Security Framework to review how the framework functions, how to use a framework, and most importantly, how the use of a framework can and will benefit their organization.
Managing IT Risk and Assessing VulnerabilityAIS Network
Presented at the ACCS Conference in March 2016. ACCS is the Association of Collegiate Computing Services of Virginia, it is IT types working for higher ed in Virginia.
01Introduction to Information Security.pptit160320737038
A distributed system is a collection of computer programs that utilize computational resources across multiple, separate computation nodes to achieve a common, shared goal. Distributed systems aim to remove bottlenecks or central points of failure from a system.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Slides for a college CISSP prep course. Instructor: Sam Bowne
Taught online for Coastline Community College and face-to-face at City College San Francisco.
Based on: "CISSP Study Guide, Third Edition"; by Eric Conrad, Seth Misenar, Joshua Feldman; ISBN-10: 0128024372.
More information at https://samsclass.info/125/125_F17.shtml
Information technology is a complex business, at best. While IT can provide amazing benefits, it still requires vigilance and diligence to ensure it is running correctly and that it is secure. A security framework can be an excellent tool to evaluate what you might be missing and confirm that what you are already doing is spot-on correct. This session will discuss the importance of using security frameworks and walk attendees through the NIST Cyber Security Framework to review how the framework functions, how to use a framework, and most importantly, how the use of a framework can and will benefit their organization.
Managing IT Risk and Assessing VulnerabilityAIS Network
Presented at the ACCS Conference in March 2016. ACCS is the Association of Collegiate Computing Services of Virginia, it is IT types working for higher ed in Virginia.
01Introduction to Information Security.pptit160320737038
A distributed system is a collection of computer programs that utilize computational resources across multiple, separate computation nodes to achieve a common, shared goal. Distributed systems aim to remove bottlenecks or central points of failure from a system.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...
Intro.ppt
1. CS 620
Introduction to Information
Security
Dr. Karen Forcht
Department of Computer Science
James Madison University
2. Part I
(Overview, Access, Control,
Cryptography, Risk Analysis)
Part II
(Business Continuity Planning,
Data Classification, Security
Awareness, Computer and
System Security)
5. Computer Security Act of 1987
Requires:
• Sensitive systems and data
must be identified
• Plans for ensuring security
and control of such
systems must be created
• Personnel training
programs must be
developed and in place
8. Risk Analysis
• Identify sensitivity of data
• Determine value of systems and information
• Assess threats and vulnerabilities (sabotage,
environment, errors)
9. Purposes of Risk Analysis
• No significant intentional or accidental
threat is overlooked
• Assure that cost-benefit analysis is
reasonable
10. Contingency Plan
• Purpose: Protect, detect, recover
• Criticality: Formulated, communicated to
ALL employees, tested regularly
12. Access Control
Collection of mechanisms to restrain
or prohibit use of information and
systems
Includes: Functions, implementation,
good practices, environmental
constraints
16. Cryptography
Definition: Use of secret codes to
provide integrity/confidentiality
of information during transfer
and storage
Considerations:
-Complexity
-Secrecy
- Characteristics of key
18. Key Management
• Public vs. Private
• Selecting Key
• Management of the Keys
• Protection of Keys
• Testing of Keys
• Updating Keys
• Error Detection
19. Risk Management
Includes ideas, models, methods,
techniques to control risk
Includes:
-Assessment
-Reduction
-Protective measures
-Risk Acceptance
-Insurance
20. Considerations of Risk
Assessment
• Annual Loss Expectancy(ALE)
• Asset Valuation/Inventory
• Types of Attacks/Threats
• Availability of Resources/Denial of Service
• Detection
• Exposure
• Passive Threats
• Perils
• Prevention
• Analysis/Assessment/Management of Risk
• Data Valuation
22. Threat and Exposure Assessment
• Density/Volume of Information
• Accessibility of Systems
• Complexity
• Electronic Vulnerability
• Media Vulnerability
• Human Factors
24. Business Continuity Planning (1)
• Planning and Analysis Methods
• Rates of Occurrence of Disabling Events
• Availability and Use of Planning Tools/Aids
• Identification of Business Success
factors(BSF) and Critical
capabilities(Critical or Key Success Factors
(CSF/KSF)
28. Off-site Backups and Storage
Two Control Points:
1. When backup material is being
transferred to/from the site
2. When backup material is stored at
the site
(also consider in-house storage)
29. Data Classification
• Elements and Objectives of a Classification
Scheme
• Criteria used to Classify Data
• Procedures to be Used
• Differences Between Government and
Commercial Programs
• Limitations
• Program Implementation
30. To Be Included:
• Distinguish Between Classification and Sensitivity
• Classified vs. Sensitive
• Data Elements
• Handling of Data
• Identify Criteria
• Classification Schemes
• Rule of Users Managers
• Effect of Data Aggregation on Classification
• Techniques for Avoiding Disclosure
31. Security Awareness
Include:
• Corporate Policies, Procedures, Intentions
• Areas Where Remedial Actions are Needed
• Assessment of Threats and Vulnerabilities
• Technology Trends
• Behaviors to be Encouraged
• User Motives
• Applicable Laws and Regulation
• Available/Applicable Communication
Channels/Media
33. Personnel Considerations
• Human Motives for Criminal Action
• Employee Selection
• Professional Certificates
• Working Environment
• Technological Updates (Effect on Users)
• Employee Separation
34. Computer and System Security
Professionals Should Understand:
• Computer Organizations, Architectures,
Designs
• Source and Origin of Security Requirements
• Advantages/Disadvantages of Various
Architectures
• Security Features/Functions of Various
Components
• Choices to be Considered When Selecting
Components
35. Common Flaws and Penetration
Methods
• Operating Systems Flaws
• Penetration Techniques(Trojan Horses,
Virus, Salami Attack, Deception)
42. Legal/Regulatory
• Federal Laws/Regulations
• State Laws/Regulations
• International Issues
• Organizational/Agency Considerations
• Personal Behavior
• Remedies to Constituents
• Civil vs. Criminal Law
• Pending Legislation
44. Investigation
• Legal Requirements for Maintaining a Trail
of Evidence
• Interrogation Techniques
• Legal Limits on Interrogation Methods
Permitted
45. Application Program Security
• Distribution of Controls Between
Application and System
• Controls Specific to Key, Common, or
Industry Applications
• Criteria for Selection and Application
• Tests for Adequacy
• Standards for Good Practice
46. Software Controls
• Development
• Maintenance
• Assurance
• Specification and Verification
• Database Security Controls
• Accounting/Auditing
47. Physical Security
• Site/Building Location
• External characteristics/Appearance
• Location of Computer Centers
• Construction Standards
• Electrical Power(UPS)
• Water/Fire Considerations
• Traffic/Access Control
• Air Conditioning/Exhaust
• Entrances/Exits
• Furnishings
• Storage of Media/Supplies
48. Operations Security
• Resources to be Protected
• Privileges to be Restricted
• Available Control Mechanisms
• Potential for Abuse of Access
• Appropriateness of Controls
• Acceptable Norms of Good Practice
49. Information Ethics
Doing the Right Thing!!
• Privacy/Confidentiality
• Common Good
• Professional Societies
• Professional Certifications
50. Policy Development
Considerations:
• Have Longevity
• Be Jargon Free
• Be Independent of Jobs, Titles, or Positions
• Set Objectives
• Fix Responsibility
• Provide Resources
• Allocate Staff
• Be Implemented Using Standards and
Guidelines
51. That’s All Folks
(and not a minute too soon!!)
I’m Looking Forward to working
With You!!!!
