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Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya School, Karaikal - 11.02.2010
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Aug 10, 2010 01:07 PM
PONDICHERRY ENGINEERING COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
National Awareness Campaign on Information Security
for :Work shop on Information Security Awareness
Sponsored by : Department of Information Technology
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India
and : Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Hyderabad
What: Internet safety awareness Workshop for School Faculty and Children’s
When: 11.02.2010, 09.00 A.M to 04.00 P.M
Where: Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya School, Karaikal
Who: Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry
Coalition includes:
ISEA Programme, DIT, Government of India
Centre for Development Of Advanced Computing, Hyderabad
NASSCOM, who was a member Inter-Ministerial Working group, presented a report to the working group (source IDC) in which it was indicated that there would be a requirement of about 77400 Information Security Professionals in INDIA by 2008. Considering the need and growing importance of the Information Security, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India has formulated and initiated the Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Programme. The main objective of this programme is to create Information Security Awareness to amongst students, teachers and parents. This prestigious programme is being implemented by the Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry. Around 30 Institutions like IIITs, NITs, DOEACC and Universities across the country are participating in this initiative. Based on the expertise of C-DAC, Hyderabad it was given the unique responsibility of executing the National Campaign of creating Information Security Awareness by DIT, Government of India. Under this programme, Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry organizing programs, workshops for creating awareness for School Children and Teachers. 10 schools (Govt. Girls Higher Secondary School, Thirunallar, Shanmuga Higher secondary school, Govt. Hr. Sec. School, Thenur, ONGC public school, Neravy, NSCB School, Thalathery, Jawaharlal Nehru Govt. Hr. Sec School, Nedungadu, Govt. Hr. Sec School, TR Pattinam, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, V.O.C. GHSS, Thanthai Periyar GHSS) have participated in this program. 116 participants have participated including students and staffs have participated in this program. A dedicated website www.infosecawareness.in has been created for this purpose.
Mr. V. Marimuthu, Chief Education Officer, Karaikal inaugurated the function. The message he addressed the gathering is Internet usage in Internet parlors is very much unsafe. Most of the information available in the internet is considered as useless and only a small amount is useful for us. Operating systems such as Windows XP are much prone to security when compared with the other OS. Avoid storing personal and important information in the computer systems of internet parlors. We can use three mail ID’s for our various purposes namely general, personal and official. Most of the free wares available in the internet is highly dangerous in installing in our own computer system because it is not that much easy to uninstall it. And also avoid using pen drives in untrusted systems. Sites such as torrent is not secure to use because when we access the site, there is possible of more than 10 persons accessing our computer and steal the data. Mr. A. Amuthan, Assistant Professor, PEC, Mr. N. Sivakumar, Assistant Professor, PEC, Mrs. G. Anusha, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya School, Karaikal has presided over the function. Mr. A. Amuthan addressed the gathering. He addressed the importance of Internet. Student need to know about the measures used to secure the information termed as the killer application of second generation mobile phones. Security professionals are now concentrating on content development that includes VOIP, Multimedia etc. Computer network of schools Should be protected from intruders wireless environment the future developing technology is very much vulnerable under communication and information technology department information security department is now conducting several workshop on creating awareness of information security among students to make the state Pondicherry ,a protected environment.
Mr. A. Amuthan, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College and coordinator of this program has compiled the whole Program. The registration started at 9.00 A. M. followed by the workshop. Mr. A. Amuthan, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE gave the lecture on Cyber bulling and downloads. Mr. N. Sivakumar, Lecturer, Department of CSE gave the lecture on Internet Communication, Social Networking. A Quiz program was conducted for all the students in the form written test. Three students were awarded the prize. Followed by we have a question hour session.
Chief Guest of the validation function is Mr. A. Arunachalam, NIC, Kariakal. He delivered the valedictory address and distributed the prizes and certificates.
Mr. V. Marimuthu, Chief Education Officer, Karaikal inaugurated the function. The message he addressed the gathering is Internet usage in Internet parlors is very much unsafe. Most of the information available in the internet is considered as useless and only a small amount is useful for us. Operating systems such as Windows XP are much prone to security when compared with the other OS. Avoid storing personal and important information in the computer systems of internet parlors. We can use three mail ID’s for our various purposes namely general, personal and official. Most of the free wares available in the internet is highly dangerous in installing in our own computer system because it is not that much easy to uninstall it. And also avoid using pen drives in untrusted systems. Sites such as torrent is not secure to use because when we access the site, there is possible of more than 10 persons accessing our computer and steal the data. Mr. A. Amuthan, Assistant Professor, PEC, Mr. N. Sivakumar, Assistant Professor, PEC, Mrs. G. Anusha, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya School, Karaikal has presided over the function. Mr. A. Amuthan addressed the gathering. He addressed the importance of Internet. Student need to know about the measures used to secure the information termed as the killer application of second generation mobile phones. Security professionals are now concentrating on content development that includes VOIP, Multimedia etc. Computer network of schools Should be protected from intruders wireless environment the future developing technology is very much vulnerable under communication and information technology department information security department is now conducting several workshop on creating awareness of information security among students to make the state Pondicherry ,a protected environment.
Mr. A. Amuthan, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College and coordinator of this program has compiled the whole Program. The registration started at 9.00 A. M. followed by the workshop. Mr. A. Amuthan, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE gave the lecture on Cyber bulling and downloads. Mr. N. Sivakumar, Lecturer, Department of CSE gave the lecture on Internet Communication, Social Networking. A Quiz program was conducted for all the students in the form written test. Three students were awarded the prize. Followed by we have a question hour session.
Chief Guest of the validation function is Mr. A. Arunachalam, NIC, Kariakal. He delivered the valedictory address and distributed the prizes and certificates.
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