{"id":47579,"date":"2017-10-31T16:05:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=47579"},"modified":"2017-10-31T16:05:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:05:46","slug":"goodman-students-educate-peers-on-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/10\/goodman-students-educate-peers-on-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodman students educate peers on cyber security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students in Teju Herath\u2019s information assurance class put their projects on display Tuesday in the name of educating their peers.<\/p>\n

Herath, a professor in the Goodman School of Business, had her students develop posters to increase awareness of cyber security issues across campus.<\/p>\n

The posters were displayed along the Canadian Tire bridge Tuesday, Oct. 31 and were judged by Associate Vice-President of Information Technology, David Cullum, ITS Client Services Director Andy Morgan, Technical Analyst Russ Fisenko and Goodman\u2019s ITS and Physical Space Manager John D\u2019Amico.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important for students to be learning about cyber security in their classes because they live in the world of security,\u201d said Cullum.<\/p>\n

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The ransomware poster created by Karamvir Jaswal, Ryan Ho and Connor Parnham placed first.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very different from when I grew up and we weren\u2019t carrying two or three \u2014 we didn\u2019t even have a cell phone. Now it\u2019s all about protecting your data. Every time you turn those devices on, you have to worry about it and it is very serious.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poster competition was held in collaboration with Brock\u2019s Information Technology Services department which has been hosting workshops throughout the month of October in observance of National Cyber Security Awareness Month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe assignment is to train the students in the practice of security,\u201d said Herath. \u201cWe partnered with Brock ITS on their cyber security initiative, so the project has a two-fold purpose: students learn more about information assurance, and we create awareness on campus about the issues as part of Cyber Security month.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ransomware poster created by Karamvir Jaswal, Ryan Ho and Connor Parnham placed first, followed closely by the phishing poster created by Hassan Butt, Andrew Lin, Stephen Margison and Vince Vat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to communicate with our poster that ransomware is becoming more and more prevalent,\u201d said Jaswal. \u201cWe wanted to show how the ransomware attack process occurs, and what you should or shouldn\u2019t do if you find yourself in that situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cRansomware is very disruptive and it happens more often than you think. As people become more educated on this issue, the frequency of these attacks will hopefully decrease.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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