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Information Security for Higher Education

Needless to say, nowadays Academic institutions rely heavily on information for academic, research and support services. And with the rapidly growing interconnectivity of information systems, which pose a major of vulnerabilities to malicious attacks to these systems. Therefore, academic institutions face a multitude concerns about the security of computing resources and information at the same time ensuring the availability and confidentiality of information and network systems.




Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning for Higher Education

Natural and digital disasters can occur and interrupt Academic Institutions operations at anytime. Although academic institutions have learned many destructive lessons in recent years, yet there are many institutions remain unprepared. Thus, the question is how soon can we recover from such disasters?

ECI – This tool really stirs up my mind!

After two and half hours trying to complete my ECI, I’ve now realized what my true competencies are. I am admitted that this tool has awakened my mind to think myself differently.

Thank you Prof. Seo :)

Is your Wireless (WLAN) secure?

* I just finished my first Computer Security course today (Sunday 29) and I really enjoyed this class.

Nowadays, wireless networking products are inexpensive and almost anyone can setup a wireless access with less than $80.00 or even cheaper for equipments. Indeed, wireless network is very convenient but beware that there are a dozen of potentials network vulnerabilities in your home WLAN.

Here are a couple tips that can help you protect your WLAN:

1. Don’t use the default setup that comes with equipments
2. Change the default administrator password and username on your Wireless router (If you don’t know how, then read….read the user manual)
3. Turn on WPA on your Access Point
4. Use MAC to control access
5. Turn Off your Wireless Access point while not in use
   

Besides that, don’t use FREE wireless access in your neighborhoods as you never know who your good neighbor is :)

Time Management - Do you know how to manage your money?

If you know how to manage your money, then you shouldn’t have any problem with managing your time.

For example, you just received a pay check from work with the amount of $500.00 and here the list of items that you could spend your money for:

1. Shopping for clothes $50.00
2. Pay Car insurance bill $100
3. Buy an iPod video (cool stuff) $200.00
4. Pay Electricity bill $50.00
5. Buy foods for family $100.00
6. Pay for Childcare $100.00
7. Pay for Gas $50.00
8. Must buy an iPhone :)

Are you going to spend $200.00 for an iPod Video or shopping for clothes while your children need foods and bills need to be paid? No, you would not do that. However, you would of course spend all your money for what important first.

Isn’t that the same concept? If you answer yes then, you can apply this concept to prioritize your tasks that helps you to manage your time more efficient.

Who stole my time?

Have you ever asked that question to yourself? Please be honest to your answer :)
I used to ask this question over time and never get the correct answer for this question until recently. The truth is no one stole my time; it is just because I did not know how to manage my time effectively.

Again, if you don’t know how to manage your time then, one day.... you will ask this question to yourself: Who stole my life?

Time Management - Important Vs Urgent

If you have a choice each day in the tasks that you face, which do you choose between doing what is urgent and doing what is important?

The truth is, I still find myself fall into this trap and can never seem to get the time to do the things that I should do. Yes, everything is important and urgent but should you do the urgent things first before doing the important things? I used to believe that successful people doing urgent things first and I was wrong; only people doing the important things first are the one that get ahead in their life.

Here are my rules to do my daily tasks and I will try to stick with these for the rest of my life:

1. Do things that are important and urgent first
2. Second, do things that are important but not urgent
3. Lastly, do the urgent things but not that important
   

It sounds silly but sometime you’ll need to put off at least some of the things that are urgent to get an important thing done.