Hotel Premier Green Street -Karwar

Information Security Awareness Workshop

@

Hotel Premier Green Street Karwar

On

13th November 2011

By

Goa Engineering College

Inaugural function of the workshop started in a traditional way by lighting the lamp at the hands of Justice Sandeep S Balekai Presiding Officer Fast track Court Karwar, Chief guest for the function. Prof.Vivek B.Kamat,Director of DTE and Pricipal Goa College of Engineering,Farmagudi presided over the function.He spoke about the information security awareness as the need of hour and the impotance of awareness about it as teachers and parents.Justice Sadeep S.Balekai,while addressing the gathering he stressed on the need for Infomration Secuirty and its Awareness in today's citizens,young and old and also spoke about cyber crimes and cyber laws which  laid a strong foundation for the further proceedings.

Prof.Nilesh Fal Dessai in his interesting lecture he stressed on the basic set of rules/regulation in information security whihc should be followed by every individual.

Prof.Aaisha Fernandes e Colaco,spoke on ethics and browsers.She laid stress on Do's and Dont's while browsing any sites.Over view on cyberbullying by Mr.Austin Colaco helped to gain a lot of knowledge on how and why parents should be vigilant  about the childs activities.

Dr.V.N.Shet chose to speak on cyber crime.He laid stress on how to avoid being a victim of such crimes which the teachers and parents liked the most.Strong and weak passwords and why to chnage the passwords regularly helped the teachers and parents know its importance.