Enemy at the Gates - Silicon Halton Meetup 53

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Meetup #53: Enemy at the Gate (Cyber Security)March 18, 2014

• 7:15 pm Welcome • 7:20 pm Announcements• 7:30 pm Panel Keynote:

Enemy at the Gate

• 8:15 pm Mark Your Calendars• 8:20 pm Get To Know Your

Members• 8:30 pm Open Floor• 8:35 pm Networking

Agenda

Show of Hands

• 986+ members• 52 meetups• 8 peer2peer groups• Hundreds of LinkedIn

discussions

Agenda

Tech Conference and Expo

When: Fall 2014

When: Fall 2014Status: Forming “circle” (group). Lot’s of interest!Tonight: Come and see me if you want to help, participate or have ideas!

Panel Keynote

Meetup 53: Enemy at the Gate

• Paul Lewis, Ethtelligent Consulting Inc.• Genaro Liriano, Teranet Inc.

Social Engineering “Alive and Well”

Genaro Liriano, EWSCP, CISSP

Linkedin: http://linkd.in/1g2IeAs

AgendaWhat is Social Engineering?Most Common “Social Engineering

Attacks”Defense against Social Engineering

AttacksQ & A

What is Social Engineering?Social Engineering; is the art of manipulating people into

performing actions or divulging confidential information.“It is an act of psychological manipulation ”

It is typically trickery or deception for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access. In most cases the attacker never comes face to face with the victim or victims.

Most Common “Social Engineering Attacks”

The technical way on breaking into computer systems by brute-forcing the user logins

or ports have been replaced by sophisticated methods that are easier and yield better

and faster results based on human psychology.

These attacks can help the “attacker\social engineer” get access to any system

irrespective of the platform, software or hardware involved.

Here are some of the most common Social Engineering Attacks:

Defense against Social Engineering AttacksThere is not any effective way to defend against Social Engineering attacks. However, implementing a layer protection approach would help us defend against the many different types of Social Engineering attacks. Some of these layers or steps would help you against “Social Engineering

Attacks”: Security Awareness Training Background Verification Physical Security Mock Social Engineering Drills Data Classification policy

Defense against Social Engineering Attacks continued …To reduce the success of Social Engineering attacks the following controls must be taken care of: Ensure your Firewalls, Antivirus, Anti-Malware and email filters are

receiving periodical update. Never Allow people to tailgate with you. Report any security threat. Do not use your corporate domain IDs on Social Media or public

domains. Pay attention to the URL of suspicious Web-sites. Do not access or read any confidential information in Public (Train,

Bus, Park). Do not send sensitive information over the internet before checking a

web site security. Ensure you shred any documents that is discarded that contains

sensitive data.

Paul Lewis CISSP CIPP/C CIPP/IT

Ethtelligent Consulting Inc.LinkedIn http://tinyurl.com/mnkztxc

Security as a small businessWhat do you care about?What do your clients care about?What threats apply to you?Home working to small office/enterprisePolicies, procedures, and paperBackups, mobile stuff and cloudsPrivacy is cheap except when it bites

someoneStrange but real threats

Security Panel – Q&A

Paul Lewis Ethtelligent Consulting

Inc.

Genaro LirianoTeranet Inc.

Mark Your Calendars

SoloPreneur Peer2Peer #32• March 20, 2014, 8:30 - 10am• Hampton Restaurant at the

Quality Suites Hotel, Oakville

Silicon Halton Workshop Day @ Burlington HiVE

• Mar 26, 2014. Open 8am – 6pm• 10 workshops: 1pm – 4pm• Free for Silicon Halton members• Not an 8-hr business social event, do your work,

attend as many or as few workshops as you wish• Learn more: http://bit.ly/LDi6ou• Help share the flyer

1pm - 2pm Think You're Ready for Investors?

Shifting Gears Startup Sales Tactics

2pm - 3pm Leveraging Government Funding

Patents and Startups

Using Social Media to Prospect

3pm - 4pm Taking a Byte out of Taxes

First or Early Hires Relationship Selling

#shlearn

Ten Workshops to Accelerate your Business!

Bring your laptop. #shlearn

• Think You're Ready for Outside Investor Funding?• Leveraging Government Funding to Grow Your Business• Taking a Byte out of Taxes

• Shifting Gears: Five Steps to Accelerate Business Success • Patents and Startups• First or Early Hires - Getting it right & avoiding the pitfalls

• Startup Sales Tactics • Using Social Media to Prospect & Build Your Network • Relationship Selling – Uncover Opportunities, Close Sales

and Build Loyalty• 3 ways to turbo-charge innovation 

Give us your business card for flyer

New Tech Meetup, Meetup 54

• April 8, 2014. 7pm• QE Park, Oakville• Learn more:

http://bit.ly/shmeetup54

Thanks to #Oakville EcDev for space!

Oakville's 1st Open Data Community Meetup

• March 27, 2014. 1-3pm• April 2, 2014. 7-9pm

Details: http://bit.ly/1idqtCZRegistration: http://bit.ly/NoSCeW 

#G2KYM Owner:Brett JohnstonLandslide Marketing@LandslideMktg

Allison J. Speigal

www.linkedin.com/in/allisonspeigel

Val Sanna

THE CREATIVE SPARKTO POWER YOUR BRAND SUCCESS

BRAND IDENTITY / COMMUNICATION DESIGN / WEB DESIGN

905.845.1055 / www.ignitiondesign.ca

@ValSanna

Brian Hickey

UTILIZING THE POWER OF VIDEO TO CREATE POWERFUL CONTENT

Brian Hickey, Owner

Phone: 905-299-8117Twitter: @72bluemedia @b_j_hickeyLinkedIn.com/in/bjhickey

www.72bluemedia.com

• Servicing small to mid size businesses in the Peel, Halton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Niagara, and Waterloo Regions

• Working with Silicon Halton I hope to be a valued member in discussions of content marketing through video

Open Floor