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Aside from the Group 2’s Presentation 1 last January 7, the Group 3 reported their Presentation 1 as well about the Information Security: Threats and Trends. What I will be sharing here are from my notes and some researched terms.
Information Security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of defending information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction. -Wikipedia
Primary Goals of Information Security:
-Confidentiality – the protection of personal information. -Google
-Integrity – the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. -Google
-Availability – the quality or state of being available. -Google
Threats – possible danger that might exploit a vulnerability to breach security and thus cause possible harm. -Wikipedia
Current Threats:
-Caller
-Crytolocker
Common Threats:
-Bot
-Malware
-Virus
-Worm
Phishing – the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money) by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. -Wikipedia
How to prevent the threats?
-Security Policy
-Security Awareness
-Access Controls
-Identification
-Authentication
-Authorization
About the Trends, I wasn’t able to take down notes because the words in the powerpoint were too long and the reporter just read their presentation. They did not have a game. They just had a quiz for us. So if I will rate their reporting 1-10, I would rate them 6.
xoxo -Melanie ♥
Melanie Fran Chua 