[Ipg-smz] Security training for hams

[Wayne Rash]

I'm putting together a presentation on computer security for ham radio
operators. The club has a high proportion of very smart engineers and a
bunch of nuclear physicists, but as you'd expect, they know little about
security. 

 

So I'm putting together a list of topics.

 

1.	Why hams are at risk (they use free software from unverified sites
and they believe that Macs are invulnerable)
2.	What the risks are:

a.	Phishing
b.	Credential theft through social engineering
c.	Ransomware and how to limit the damage
d.	Failure to patch

3.	How to limit the risks

a.	Know how to identify a phishing email (I have examples of actual
emails)
b.	How to identify social engineering
c.	How to patch
d.	How and why to back up your data and why a network share isn't
secure, and neither is an air gap.

 

Any thoughts on what else I should include?

 

Wayne Rash

703-425-9231

703-200-4915 cell

 

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