Sharan Kalwani of IEEE Education Society

Securing your computer & yourself

Despite the advances in computing technology, the average person, remains vulnerable to all sorts of security threats.

In this wide ranging and comprehensive seminar, material is presented that will give you a number of steps you can do to improve the security of your computer {that includes PC, tablet, phone, etc.}, at the same time also boost your privacy, so that the Internet is a little bit less of the “Wild West” experience. Some of the topics that will presented are:

•        Ransomware
•        Viruses
•        Phishing Scams
•        Privacy settings on web sites and social media forums (such as Linkedin.com)
•        Identity Theft and
•        Other types of malware
•        General tools (and reliable resources) you can use

Biography:

A seasoned scientifc, technical and computing professional, Sharan has spent over 20+ years implementing many new and pioneering technologies from operating systems (*nix) , high performance computing (Cray, SGI, compute clusters), engineering applications (CAE simulations), optimization, networking (TCP/IP, Infiniband), operations (ITIL, ITSM), scientific domain (BioInformatics) and project management. A successful speaker and author, Sharan looks to increase the professional approach of every individual he interacts with. He enjoys teaching, contributing to STEM activities and publishing. He is a senior member of IEEE, ACM, Emeritus member of Michigan!/usr/group, and leads the SIG-Linux section of SEMCO. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE SE Michigan Education Society Chapter since 2017. He is also the receipient of the IEEE MGA award in 2018 for contributions to local IEEE activities.

He has also a published author on the topic: "UNIX and TCP/IP network security"; ISBN: 1581430213, ISBN-13: 9781581430219; Publisher: ProsoftTraining (May 1999), Format: paperback