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A free
workshop will teach business executives, IT professionals,
and law enforcement how to work together to prevent
computer-related crimes in the workplace and what to do if
their system has been attacked. The workshop will be
offered April 20 at the Purdue University College of
Technology at Columbus.
The workshop, titled "Cooperative
Computer Incident Response: Implementing Cross-Community
Teams for Computer Security," will be held from 9:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. at the Summerville Room of the Columbus
Learning Center, 4555 Central Ave., Columbus.
Lunch will be provided. The deadline
for registration is April 13. To sign up, contact Lori
Floyd at (765) 494-7841, laf@cerias.purdue.edu or go
online at http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/news_and_events/events/ccir_columbus_signup.php/
The sessions will be led by Tim
Wedge, a computer crime specialist at the National White
Collar Crime Center and a visiting faculty member in
Purdue's Department of Computer and Information
Technology. He is positioned at Purdue in support of a
partnership formed in 2004 between Purdue University, the
National White Collar Crime Center, and the Indiana State
Police.
The National White Collar Crime
Center and Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency
Response Team created the workshop. It is recommended for
business decision makers, information security
professionals, and law-enforcement professionals.
Some of the issues the workshop will
address include:
• Should you, and are you required
to, call law enforcement if your network has been
attacked?
• Which agency should you call?
• Are your workplace's current
policies effective in preserving admissible evidence?
• Do your current policies allow law
enforcement to effectively investigate and prosecute the
crime?
Wedge will begin the workshop with a
description of a typical computer system attack, and the
traditional responses. He then will then define the scope
of the problem and outline the elements of potential
solutions.
Participants also will work in teams
to respond to a simulated computer-related incident. They
will have the opportunity to first work in single
community teams, such as law enforcement, business or
information technology, then they will form
cross-community teams to simulate a task force and make
recommendations on how to proceed.
Delivery of this workshop is
sponsored by the Purdue Center for Education and Research
in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), the Purdue
Department of Computer and Information Technology, the
National White Collar Crime Center, and the Indiana State
Police.
The National White Collar Crime
Center (NW3C) is a federally funded non-profit corporation
whose membership is composed primarily of state and local
law enforcement agencies, state regulatory bodies with
enforcement powers, and state and local prosecution
offices. While NW3C has no investigative authority itself,
its job is to help law enforcement agencies better
understand and utilize tools to combat economic and
high-tech crime.
The College of Technology at Columbus
offers degrees in mechanical engineering technology,
computer and information technology, industrial
technology, and organizational leadership and supervision.
It is one of three educational
institutions located at the Columbus Learning Center. Also
included at the center are Ivy Tech and Indiana
University-Purdue University Columbus. The institutions
share space at the center but are governed by three
separate organizational entities.
Writer: Kim Medaris, (765) 494-6998,
kmedaris@purdue.edu
Sources: Melissa Dark, assistant
dean for planning and research in the College of
Technology, (765) 494-2554, dark@purdue.edu
Tim Wedge,
visiting faculty in the Department of Computer and
Information Technology, (765) 494-2568, twedge@purdue.edu
Lori Floyd,
administrative assistant at CERIAS, (765) 494-7841, laf@cerias.purdue.edu
Related Web sites:
Cooperative Computer Incident
Response workshop: http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/news_and_events/events/ccir_columbus_signup.php/
Purdue Department of Computer and
Information Technology: http://www.tech.purdue.edu/cit/
National White Collar Crime Center
http://www.nw3c.org |
