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SECURITY EDUCATION

The Network Security Team is available to give presentations to campus groups about computer security issues on the SIU campus. Please contact us to discuss your needs.

March 2010 SIU IT Security Awareness materials

Highway Robbery in the Digital Age - 3/29/2010

One SIU student's account of how she was tricked out of a fair amount of money in a complex Facebook phishing scam. Provides a look into contemporary internet scamming techniques

"Computer and Data Protection Techniques and Why We Need Them"

-Detailed Version
-Overview Version   

This presentation covers data discovery techniques, system patching techniques and tools and briefly discusses the modern threat to computer systems and data in the form of drive-by exploitation, social engineering and other risks.

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The Network Security Team extensively utilizes the SIU LAN-ADMIN-L mailing list to disseminate security information to SIU computing staff. Please sign-up for this list by sending an email to LISTSERV@SIU.EDU with the body of the message "Subscribe LAN-ADMIN-L". 

To contact the list owner, please email Michael Shelton.

A variety of professional non-SIU affiliated security training resources exist. Please see "External Links" for more information on this topic.

Information security certifications
https://certification.about.com/od/securitycerts/a/seccertessentls.htm