October 6, 2004 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT); runs one hour

Campus and National Approaches to Improving Cyber Security Awareness

Special Guests

Martha J. Lockwood
Executive Director
National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA)

Martha J. Lockwood, CAE, APR, is the executive director of the National Cyber Security Alliance. A graduate of Syracuse University, Martha has earned both the Certified Association Executive designation from the American Society of Association Executives and the Accredited in Public Relations designation from the Public Relations Society of America. She is also a member of the National Press Club. Lockwood volunteers with a variety of organizations, and her commitment to volunteerism is a major part of her personal life. She was a founder of the Northeast Industrial Waste Exchange. Lockwood is an ex officio member of the board of directors of the American Society of Association Executives and served as a delegate to the National Cyber Rights Convention.

Krizi Trivisani
Chief Security Officer
The George Washington University

Krizi Trivisani has served as The George Washington University’s chief security officer since May 2000. She is responsible for developing and implementing a campus-wide security program that supports the academic and administrative use of information technologies in a distributed client/server environment. Working in conjunction with staff and personnel in other campus departments, she assumes the overall responsibility for ensuring processes are in place to assess and monitor the security of the university’s computers, networks, and data. Trivisani also sits on the university’s compliance and privacy committees. She represents higher education on the Human Firewall Council and is an editorial advisor for CSO magazine. Her team’s security program won the national Technology Managers Forum’s Best Practices Award in Information Security for 2002. She has contributed to the White House’s Homeland Cyber Security Initiative and is a member of the evaluation/recommendation team. Trivisani is also a member of the Secret Service’s Electronic Crimes Task Force and has been profiled by SearchSecurity under their Who’s Who in Infosec. Trivisani has previously worked on large security projects for both EDS and Bank of America. She has more than 10 years of information security experience and over 13 years’ control and compliance experience.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Martha Lockwood and Krizi Trivisani, and the topic will be "Campus and National Approaches to Improving Cyber Security Awareness."

The solutions necessary to improve cyber security require a combination of approaches that involve people, processes, and technology. Consequently, a key ingredient to any cyber security strategy is adherence to safe computing practices by end users. Developing core awareness messages that are appropriate to all users can be challenging, and promoting security awareness is an ongoing task.

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. This program will describe the efforts of the National Cyber Security Alliance to improve awareness in homes, schools, state and local government, and small businesses. Strategies and tools for security awareness in the college and university setting will also be provided.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• Security Awarenes
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! seminars