Your Laptop Computer:
1) Secure It or 2) Consider a Career Change!
Wow! Sound harsh? Are those the only options? They could be – depending on what kind of information you’re
storing on that portable hard drive!
If you use a laptop or other portable device to store confidential information, you should know that
there are a lot of evil-doers out there who no longer care as much about the laptop itself as they do about the
information that might be on it. Losing confidential data can lead to a loss of your job.
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Keeping the Lines of Communication Open
 Brown's Electronic Mail Policy has recently undergone an
extensive review by a cross-section of groups, from technical "Subject Matter Experts" to senior officers.
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Contest Details
Mystery links have been hidden throughout the newsletter. Some are red herrings, but one leads to the winning prize page.
If you are one of the first five individuals to find the winning link, follow the instructions you find there to name and claim your prize.
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Inside IT Security at Brown: Tim Wells
 Tim Wells came to Brown in June of 2006 as CIS's new Director of Network Technology in the Academic and Network Systems and Services unit, overseeing the Network Technology Group, Security Operations, Telecommunications Operations, and Facilities Project Coordination.
Before Brown, he was a Vice President for the Citizens Financial Group, working with the Enterprise Architecture and Strategy team. During his eight years at Citizens, he held engineering and senior operational management positions, with responsibilities that included network planning and upgrades, distributed systems, disaster recovery and business continuity.
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A Security Myth: Patches? Patches? I don't need no...
Myth: I don't apply patches and updates. I don't need them, and they
just cause problems.
Truth: A recipe for disaster. Computers are machines, and like all machines, they require maintenance.
While it's true that an update or patch occasionally contains a troublesome flaw or a bug, applying them regularly to your
computer is nevertheless essential to maintaining security. They help protect your computer and other networked computers
against continuous security threats.
Viruses and worms are stealthy. Users often don't even know that their computer system has been hacked or infected
until it stops working entirely. By the time an infection becomes obvious, it's likely your information will have been compromised
or lost, and even more likely that your computer will have spread the infection to other computers -- perhaps many other computers.
Think of it as a public health issue.
Republished with permission from OUCH!
SANS Institute Security Newsletter for Computer Users, v4 #5
Check out the "Protecting Brown Information"
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