George Grachis's Posts - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T19:00:34ZGeorge Grachishttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GeorgeGrachishttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1950433293?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://www.classroom20.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=17sgqno5e7rkt&xn_auth=noGlobal Institute for Cybersecurity + Research, Includes K-12 Initative and Cyber Challenges!tag:www.classroom20.com,2011-06-06:649749:BlogPost:6469812011-06-06T13:07:25.000ZGeorge Grachishttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GeorgeGrachis
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><font color="#003F80" face="Calibri" size="2">It is with great pleasure and excitement that I introduce to you a current initiative underway by the Global Institute for Cybersecurity + Research at Exploration Park/Kennedy Space Center to establish the State of Florida as a National Leader in Cybersecurity Awareness and Career Education. This initiative supports:…</font></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><font face="Calibri" color="#003F80" size="2">It is with great pleasure and excitement that I introduce to you a current initiative underway by the Global Institute for Cybersecurity + Research at Exploration Park/Kennedy Space Center to establish the State of Florida as a National Leader in Cybersecurity Awareness and Career Education. This initiative supports:</font></span></p>
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<li><span style="color: #000000;"><font face="Calibri" color="#003F80" size="2">Implementation of statewide cybersecurity awareness and career education programs (K-20)</font></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;"><font face="Calibri" color="#003F80" size="2">Provides opportunities for Florida Community Colleges and Universities to become designated by US DHS and NSA as Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance</font></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000;"><font face="Calibri" color="#003F80" size="2">Incorporates Florida into the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and includes (US DHS, US DOE, US DOL, NSA, NSF, Executive Office of the President)</font></span></li>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">To learn more please contact the following Site/Office</span></p>
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<div><div><p><span style="color: #000000;"><b><u><font face="Calibri" color="#2E5C8D" size="2">Global Institute for Cybersecurity + Research (GICSR)</font></u></b></span></p>
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<p>George Grachis CISSP, CISA</p>
<p>Author of OMGClickHereToGetScammed.com</p>K-12 is being represented at a major Information Security Conference! Info Sec World 2011 Orlando Fla April 19-21tag:www.classroom20.com,2011-04-05:649749:BlogPost:6215832011-04-05T12:55:15.000ZGeorge Grachishttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GeorgeGrachis
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<p>I work as a District Information Security Analyst for the 11th largest K-12 District in Florida!</p>
<p>I'm presenting at Info Sec World 2011. Session B3 April 19. Building a Comprehensive Security Awareness Program on a Budget.</p>
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<p>With Zero day exploits, drive by downloads user awareness and education of cyber threats is now more important than ever! Just last year A New York City School District was attacked....…</p>
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<p>I work as a District Information Security Analyst for the 11th largest K-12 District in Florida!</p>
<p>I'm presenting at Info Sec World 2011. Session B3 April 19. Building a Comprehensive Security Awareness Program on a Budget.</p>
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<p>With Zero day exploits, drive by downloads user awareness and education of cyber threats is now more important than ever! Just last year A New York City School District was attacked....<a href="http://www.askthejudge.info/school-districts-bank-accounts-hacked-for-3-million/4025/">http://www.askthejudge.info/school-districts-bank-accounts-hacked-for-3-million/4025/</a></p>
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<p>"Regardless of the technology in place to protect data, people represent the biggest threat"</p>
<p>Alex Ryskin. </p>
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<p>George Grachis CISA, CISSP <a rel="nofollow" class=" twitter-hashtag" title="#ISW" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23ISW">#ISW</a></p>
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<p>My K-12 Information Security Story..</p>
<p><a href="http://omgclickheretogetscammed.com/">http://omgclickheretogetscammed.com/</a></p>Great Book; The Captain. The Fisherman Who Became Captain of the Worlds Largest Cruise Ship.tag:www.classroom20.com,2011-02-28:649749:BlogPost:6071102011-02-28T16:31:46.000ZGeorge Grachishttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GeorgeGrachis
<p>I just spent the past 7 days on Royal Caribbeans Allure of the Seas.<strong>The largest cruise Ship in the World</strong>. It's about 4 football fields long! Cost of this ship is 1.4 Billion dollars!</p>
<p><br></br>I met Captain Johnny, and just had to buy this book. I also had to read it while I was on his ship. This book tells a great story about a boy who grew up in a small fishing village in Norway. Captain Johnny talks about the importance of family, and how values like treating others as…</p>
<p>I just spent the past 7 days on Royal Caribbeans Allure of the Seas.<strong>The largest cruise Ship in the World</strong>. It's about 4 football fields long! Cost of this ship is 1.4 Billion dollars!</p>
<p><br/>I met Captain Johnny, and just had to buy this book. I also had to read it while I was on his ship. This book tells a great story about a boy who grew up in a small fishing village in Norway. Captain Johnny talks about the importance of family, and how values like treating others as you wish to be treated, and the fact that life is full of Challenges that must be viewed as just that; Challenges vs. problems. Always keep it positive!</p>
<p><br/>Through hard work, a sense of humor and family; you can do almost anything! This book is very inspiring, A must read for all, especially our youth! Not just my country's youth, All youth!</p>
<p><br/>"The Captain" by Arvid Moller</p>Google Appstag:www.classroom20.com,2011-01-25:649749:BlogPost:5862622011-01-25T19:08:28.000ZGeorge Grachishttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GeorgeGrachis
<p>We are a School District of about 73,000 students. We have about 90 schools! We are in the process of moving to Google Apps. We realize NY Schools have already made this move. Can anyone provide some best practices for the roll out of a system this large?</p>
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<p>IE: How did you prepare the students for this new responsibility, What training? New Policies? Did you roll it out with a lot of features all at once or are you phasing it in?Are you delegating admin to each school or…</p>
<p>We are a School District of about 73,000 students. We have about 90 schools! We are in the process of moving to Google Apps. We realize NY Schools have already made this move. Can anyone provide some best practices for the roll out of a system this large?</p>
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<p>IE: How did you prepare the students for this new responsibility, What training? New Policies? Did you roll it out with a lot of features all at once or are you phasing it in?Are you delegating admin to each school or centrally managing it? Are you allowing Email for Staff and students?</p>
<p>We believe this is a necessary and important step in furthering K-12 Education, however we still want to balance it with sensible controls and training.</p>
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<p>George Grachis CISA, CISSP</p>
<p>District Information Security Analyst</p>
<p>Brevard Public Schools</p>
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<p> </p>Moving to the Cloud? Learn the Risk, then move!tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-10-28:649749:BlogPost:5227762010-10-28T14:42:14.000ZGeorge Grachishttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GeorgeGrachis
It's no secret that the world is quickly loving to the cloud, There are many benefits to moving to cloud based services like Google Apps and Microsoft's Live.Edu!<div><br></br></div>
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It's no secret that the world is quickly loving to the cloud, There are many benefits to moving to cloud based services like Google Apps and Microsoft's Live.Edu!<div><br/></div>
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</div>2010 Verizon Business Data Breach Reporttag:www.classroom20.com,2010-10-21:649749:BlogPost:5202912010-10-21T12:47:19.000ZGeorge Grachishttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GeorgeGrachis
This yearly report is becoming the Gold standard in the information Security field.<div>It can be used to Identify real threats to any organizations data and data systems.</div>
<div>For example, one recent finding concerns <b>Malware Customization:</b> "We are not so happy to say that the increase in customized malware we reported last year appears not to be a fluke limited to 2008. 2009 revealed a similar proportion of breaches (54% of those involving malware) and an incredible 97% of the…</div>
This yearly report is becoming the Gold standard in the information Security field.<div>It can be used to Identify real threats to any organizations data and data systems.</div>
<div>For example, one recent finding concerns <b>Malware Customization:</b> "We are not so happy to say that the increase in customized malware we reported last year appears not to be a fluke limited to 2008. 2009 revealed a similar proportion of breaches (54% of those involving malware) and an incredible 97% of the 140+ million records were compromised through customized malware across the Verizon-USSS caseload."</div>
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<div>What this means is that traditional signature based Malware detection is becoming much less effective. Look to replace these systems as part of your systems life cycle with Global Threat intelligence products like Cisco's ASA botnet filter <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/chbutg">http://tinyurl.com/chbutg</a></b> or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Mcafees Global Threat intelligence products</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/297yqjp">http://tinyurl.com/297yqjp</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>or</b> other similar products.</span></b></span></div>
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<div>The Verizon report: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/26cqfj2">http://tinyurl.com/26cqfj2</a></b></span></div>Your Online Reputation Matters!tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-10-07:649749:BlogPost:5155982010-10-07T16:59:34.000ZGeorge Grachishttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GeorgeGrachis
I just saw this on ABC News. Its so important for all professionals, not just teachers to know just how easy it is to share too much with too many while online, then its posted forever! Now there is hope, some companies are coming to the rescue (for a price) to help make things better. This story does a good job of addressing this important issue for everyone including teens!…<div><br></br></div>
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I just saw this on ABC News. Its so important for all professionals, not just teachers to know just how easy it is to share too much with too many while online, then its posted forever! Now there is hope, some companies are coming to the rescue (for a price) to help make things better. This story does a good job of addressing this important issue for everyone including teens!<div><br/></div>
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</div>K-12 needs Internet Filter Flexibility.tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-10-04:649749:BlogPost:5147882010-10-04T17:19:31.000ZGeorge Grachishttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GeorgeGrachis
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">While most US corporations turn on Web filtering to control content and reduce their liability exposure, K-12 has different needs. We are now planning a RBAC, (Role based Access Controls) project for our web filter. This will allow us to remain CIPA compliant for all students, (Child Internet Protection Act) yet still offer the much needed access to our…</span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">While most US corporations turn on Web filtering to control content and reduce their liability exposure, K-12 has different needs. We are now planning a RBAC, (Role based Access Controls) project for our web filter. This will allow us to remain CIPA compliant for all students, (Child Internet Protection Act) yet still offer the much needed access to our staff for things like Youtube, which has a lot of great educational material. With that said, Youtube also has a lot of stuff that is not K-12 appropriate. So we will let Educators control its use; Youtube Educational materials will be presented to the class via the classroom projectors. I think its a Win Win!</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br/></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Additional training is being recommended to make sure all staff are aware of the related issues. This is an excellent Free course for K-12.</span> <a href="http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/education/k-12/cerias_resources/files/goal3/keeping_info_safe.php">http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/education/k-12/cerias_resources/files/goal3/keeping_info_safe.php</a><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br/></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Note</b>: RBAC uses Active Directory to add specific users to a group, to the more open filter group in this case. This we can add all staff to the open internet group, (not completely open) yet protect students and keep them in more restrictive groups.</span></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">While in a perfect world we would just open the filter completely. Even without the CIPA issues, we need to filter a multitude of sites that serve up Malware, ( Malicious Software) designed to compromise systems for financial gain. learn more about cyber crime at</span></font> <a href="http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1331">http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1331</a> and <a href="http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1331">http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1331</a></div>
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<div>Yes K-12 Districts have also been attacked. <a href="http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?S=11771279&nav=menu30_2_3">http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?S=11771279&nav=menu30_2_3</a></div>
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