{"id":44749,"date":"2017-05-10T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44749"},"modified":"2017-05-10T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:47:56","slug":"podcast-prof-teju-herath-talks-cyber-security-on-conversations-with-goodman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/05\/podcast-prof-teju-herath-talks-cyber-security-on-conversations-with-goodman\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Prof. Teju Herath talks cyber security on Conversations with Goodman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/321957090&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s\u00a0<em>Conversation with Goodman<\/em>\u00a0podcast, host Susan LeBlanc talks to Teju Herath, Associate Professor of Information Systems in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, about her research on cyber security.<\/p>\n<p>Herath\u2019s research focuses on two main streams \u2014\u00a0the behavioural aspects of information security and management of security. Information security is more important than ever as cyber security breaches occur more frequently and new threats arise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the information technology has become so pervasive and its use grows, so are the threats growing and that is why it is so important for all of us to take it seriously,\u201d\u00a0she says.<\/p>\n<p>Herath has researched phishing extensively and describes this type of scam as a social engineering threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial engineering threats take advantage of our trusting nature and those issues cannot be completely overcome by technologies alone,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of looking for a technological solution to a problem like phishing scams, Herath says we must focus on the policies, practices and methods to protect ourselves since the main problem with this type of threat is the people behind it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation itself has no ethics. People are one of the most important components,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Herath\u2019s best advice for people looking to protect their data online is to \u2018think before you click,\u2019 which is also an integral part of <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/03\/brock-launches-security-program-to-thwart-hackers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brock\u2019s security awareness program<\/a> launched last year by Information Technology Services.<\/p>\n<p>This podcast is the latest in the\u00a0<em>Conversations with Goodman<\/em>\u00a0series which is produced by the Goodman Marketing, Communications and Alumni Relations team and features guests from the Goodman community.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/20FypWGNFXU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s Conversation with Goodman podcast, host Susan LeBlanc talks to Teju Herath, Associate Professor of Information Systems in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, about her research on cyber security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":44750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,1,4],"tags":[594,3410,4586],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}