Personal IT Security

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Personal IT Security

How to practically apply cybersecurity principles in everyday home life

(With a brief but through review of cryptography concepts)

Robert Bleidt - Streamcrest Associates

As an IEEE member, others probably look to you for computer and network support and you’re likely the default home network manager, even if you don’t have any background in security. This seminar is designed to help you with some practical advice beyond the simple platitudes told to the public, but below hacker level and extreme measures.

We will start with a brief high-level summary of the cryptography that secures digital communications – RSA, Diffie-Hellman, AES, PDFs, etc. – and touch on what will change as quantum computers mature.

This background will help in discussing how long passwords should be, and what VPNs are good (and not good) for.

Unfortunately, correct cryptography only protects computers – it’s not protecting against things you do or let happen. So, the rest of the seminar will focus on practical ways to harden your network, and more importantly, your users.

• Why your users (and you) can’t be trusted with passwords and how to fix that.
• How to get insecure IoT devices off your home network.
• What type of router is best for your house?
• What should you do when traveling?
• You’re having a great time on vacation and suddenly your phone is missing.

This will be in the spirit of an informal “lunchtime seminar” and should be fun. The presenter is an engineer with a side interest in security who has developed secure systems but is not employed in the security industry and has no “axe to grind”.

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We look forward to you joining us and sharing this exciting program.

IEEE wishes to thank Victor Ivanov, Georgia Tech grad student and works for Mercedes, for assisting Roy Brown to enter this eNotice program.

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4:00 PM Presentation

5:00 PM - Adjourn

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