A Talk by Mr. Khalid in Seminar In Info. Sec. Class (MCS 2070)

Howdy! This is my first assignment and i'm about to write a brief summary of what Mr. Khalid had talked in a short seminar in class last weekend (Thursday,10th February 2011). Firstly this is a Prof. Dr. Abdul Hanan's Seminar in Information Security subject class (MCS 2070)  assignment. Okay let's begin. The talk is presented by Mr. Khalid who is a PhD. student under Prof. Dr. Abdul Hanan. Network Security is his field of expertise and he is from Pakistan. He is the one who has Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and a vice-president of Computer Emergency Research Team (CERT) R&D team. He starting by saying that briefing about what are the basic needs of information security and what we want to be and who we are in information security field. After that he stated that he needs a volunteer in his project. He needs a good programmer to help him in his project. Then he continue the talk with giving a lecture about the meaning of cyber crimes. Then he told us about the scenario in which the Pakistan Airlines server was down for more than 3 times because of someone had hacked the server. Then they responded to FIA. The FIA is a government organization supervised by the government of Pakistan. Then Mr. Khalid has asked his CERT team to investigate and bring their expert to rectify the problem. All of his CERT team member is a CEH certified personnel.

After that he continue the talk about some lecture about Hacking and the definition of it. And the meaning of hacker, according to Mr. Khalid, is a person who is unauthorized try to enter a system using backdoor. Then he said that an Ethical Hacking means a positive thing we do. Then he continue with lecture about MyCERT that is in Malaysia and he said that maybe someday there could be a FSKM CERT would be established in UTM. Then he shared with us some of his experience about PANDA anti-virus software and he stated that PANDA is the world's number 3 anti-virus software and he has a friend who has working at PANDA company. He then give us some advise about using pirate software. He noted that using a pirate software is risk to a virus intrusion. And then he shared about read first the License Agreement (LA) before proceed to install some software. Before he concludes his seminar, he said something about Virtual Private Network (VPN) Security. The VPN Security is his project which are to encrypt.decrypt and modified hardware and also his field of expertise. And last but not least, he said that everyone who wants to ask him for some help regarding his field of expertise, he is willing to help and give some advise or whatsoever. Then the class concluded with some Question & Answer (Q&A) session before dismissed.