Cyber and Information Security Considerations for Research

Course description

Please join us for a presentation from Karl Sellmann, Chief Information Security Officer, and Isobel Walter-Smith, Senior Information Security Audit & Risk Specialist, who will discuss:

• Recent trends in cyber threat activity in Australia and, in particular, Higher Education
• The focus required in attaining, reviewing, holding and managing personal data and how we can protect it 
• Cybersecurity awareness training to staff
• Regulatory and legislative obligations related to cyber security, including national critical infrastructure obligations
• Risk management plans
  - What questions to answer on data
  
  - How to handle sensitive data 

  - When to engage security 
• Security plans for individual research projects—what are they and what do they include
  - Security compliance and auditing activities 
• Your own personal security
  - Your devices
  - When you travel
  - Social media
  - Email

Type of course

Information session