University of Petroleum & Energy Studies -Dehradun

Information Security Awareness Workshop

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University of Petroleum & Energy Studies -Dehradun

On 4th March

By C-DAC Hyderabad

Information Security Awareness Workshop was organized by cdac hyderabad  which was conducted at  University of Petroleum & Energy Studies -Dehradun for the Engineering students , around 175 students participated for the workshop.The coordinator of ISEA Mr.Ch.A.S.Murty started the session with brief description of the project and started the session with why such awareness workshop are necessary and importance of the same.

The workshop was mixture of theory, practical, demo videos, with suitable examples for some of the topics.

The topics covered during the workshop are as follows

• The Best thing and worst thing of the Internet
• Importance of Copyrights
• Basic Security Concepts
• Layer wise attacks
• Common online attacks
• Technology implementation to mitigate the risks
• Social Engineering Techniques
• Password Attacks
• Importance of Strong Password
• Secure Browser
• Phishing emails
• How to trace the spoofed emails
• email risks and tips
• Skimming
• Malware
• Types of Malware
• Secure PC
• Many more

During the session the demos , videos were shown on how to trace the spoofed emails like promotional emails, tracing of IP addresss, importance of strong password and how to create it etc.