BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Examining the Threat Landscape of Social Engineering in an Emergin g Society DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181204T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181204T102500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260814T183044Z UID:indico-contribution-159-809@events.chpc.ac.za DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Francois Mouton ()\nSocial Engineering has become th e go-to attack methodology in the 21 st Century. Organisations and governm ents have a vested interest in securing sensitive information as well as t he trust of clients or citizens. Technology on its own is no longer a suff icient safeguard against information theft. Employees\, often the weak lin k in an information security system\, could be influenced or manipulated b y the attacker to divulge sensitive information\, thus allowing unauthoris ed individuals to gain access to protected systems. As technology develop ed\, social engineering became commonly used for technology related crimes . This is no longer the case as we see it reverting back to its original u se of mobilising communities to perform or act in ways assumed to be ‘op timal’ or ‘correct’. This is typically either for personal gain of t he attacker or to influence people to subscribe to the attacker’s societ al belief system. \n\nThrough the utilisation of real-life social engineer ing examples\, the formal process of social engineering and techniques uti lised to abuse the inherent trust of individuals is explored. This particu lar discussion focuses on the psyche of an individual and discusses the ba sic human instinct of trust. The concept of trust is something that diffe rs based on environmental conditions and socio-economic upbringing. Trust will however\, always remain a basic human instinct. A ‘functioning’ s ociety relies on the fact that individuals have inherent trust. For exampl e\, most people inherently ‘trust’ institutions to manage financial as pects of life\, similarly\, they “trust” that other people in turn wil l obey those same institutions. Not having this basic form of trust could send society into a state of chaos. As a result\, this discussion examines the extent to which\nscepticism can aid society and in turn allow individ uals to protect themselves. In the end\, everyone has a need of being acce pted and ultimately\, all of us just want to belong…\n\nhttps://events.c hpc.ac.za/event/33/contributions/809/ LOCATION: Meeting Room 10 URL:https://events.chpc.ac.za/event/33/contributions/809/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bandwidth and its influence on tertiary education DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181204T093000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181204T095500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260814T183044Z UID:indico-contribution-159-810@events.chpc.ac.za DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Sune Von Solms (University of Johannesburg)\nIn Sout h Africa\, increased access to educational resources is altering the colle ctive face of education. Many in the education field see new technologies as powerful tools to help universities meet the needs of ever-more-diverse student populations. Digital devices\, software applications\, interactiv e digital textbooks\, e-books\, online assessments and various learning pl atforms offer unimaginable options for tailoring education to each individ ual student’s academic strengths and weaknesses\, personal preferences a nd financial position. Without a doubt\, one key enabler for these educati onal technologies is fast\, robust and reliable broadband. Reliable broadb and not only assists on-site students and lecturers at university campuses \, but also enables off-site faculty and students to participate in online learning experiences. Our increased dependence on these online learning t echnologies will continue to increase the demand for more and more bandwid th.\n\nThis talk looks at the staggering numbers surrounding the use of fa st\, robust and reliable broadband at tertiary educational institutions. W e consider the growth in Internet traffic at educational institutions\, ba ndwidth costs and the advancement of educational technological tools and m edia\n\nhttps://events.chpc.ac.za/event/33/contributions/810/ LOCATION: Meeting Room 10 URL:https://events.chpc.ac.za/event/33/contributions/810/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Moving more data\, faster - SANReN Data Transfer Pilot Service DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181204T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181204T092500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260814T183044Z UID:indico-contribution-159-811@events.chpc.ac.za DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Sakhamuzi Hadebe (CSIR - SANReN CA)\, Kasandra Pilla y (SANReN)\nMoving masses of data is a challenge. In most cases networks o ptimized for business operations are neither designed for nor capable of s upporting the data movement requirements of data intensive research. When scientists attempt to run data intensive applications over these so called “general purpose”/enterprise networks\, the result is often poor perf ormance – in many cases poor enough that the science mission is signific antly impacted. At its worst this means either not\ngetting the data\, get ting it too late or resorting to “desperate” measures such as shipping disks around. The South African National Research Network (SANReN) is cur rently piloting a data transfer service with the goal of changing this for our researchers/scientists and optimising the transfer of datasets across the network. The service makes use of data transfer nodes configured in a science\nDMZ architecture using specially designed data transfer tools to efficiently and securely move data.\nThis presentation will present an ov erview of the science DMZ\, data transfer nodes\, tools and services that we have implemented as part of the SANReN Data Transfer Pilot project as w ell as preliminary results we’ve achieved.\n\nhttps://events.chpc.ac.za/ event/33/contributions/811/ LOCATION: Meeting Room 10 URL:https://events.chpc.ac.za/event/33/contributions/811/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR