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Best Practices for Keeping your Home Network Secure
Johns Hopkins University features video of Homewood Campus Security
2013 Security Week Video
Laptop Anti-Theft Software
Student Domestic Abuse Awareness
Best Practices for Keeping your Home Network Secure
The cyber threat is no longer limited to your office network and work persona. Adversaries realize that targets are typically more vulnerable when operating from their home network since there is less rigor associated with the protection, monitoring, and maintenance of most home networks. Home users need to maintain a basic level of network defense and hygiene for both themselves and their family members when accessing the Internet.
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Video of Homewood Campus Security
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Video of Homewood Campus 2013 Security Week
To see a video of our activities during Security Week 2013, go the the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpV_9CswtWk&feature=youtu.be.
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FrontDoor Software - Laptop Anti-Theft Software
Students, faculty, and staff now have access to laptop anti-theft software aimed at stemming the rising number of thefts, and at quickly recovering stolen computers. Through a four-year licensing agreement with FrontDoor Software, the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute is providing the software for free to the university community. It's available for download to anyone with a Johns Hopkins University–related email address at http://frontdoorsoftware.com/jhu.
Student Domestic Abuse Awareness
Break the Cycle is proud to partner with the National Dating Abuse Helpline to provide loveisrespect.org - the ultimate online resource for healthy relationships. The website is designed for all young people - no matter what age, gender, ethnicity or sexual identity - to get the help they need creating healthy relationships. Uniting the Helpline's interactive phone, chat and text service with Break the Cycle's vast library of content, loveisrespect.org is everything a young person needs when encountering dating abuse.
Visit http://www.loveisrespect.org/ to learn dating basics, what is abuse, how to get help and ways to take action.
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