How Secure Is Your Home Network by Dr. Cynthia Calongne, Dr. Linda Hamons, and Professor Tracy Rose. Presented at CONNECT 2020 on October 16, 2020 for CCCOnline and the Colorado Community Colleges Systems

1. How Secure is Your Home Network?
Prof. Tracy Rose, Dr. Linda Hamons, and Dr. Cynthia Calongne, CCCOnline
CONNECT 2020

2. Perceptions
Bin Laden’s Mountain
Fortress
Conceptual Model
vs. Real

3. What Makes Your Home Network Safe?
The challenges of complexity

4.  Cable Modem? Router?
 Streaming TV? Alexa?
 Internet of Things (IoT) devices?
 Security Cameras, Doorbell
 Garage door opener
 Baby Monitor
 Protections
 Antivirus?
 Firewall?
 Internet Security?
What is on your home network?

5. No one wants your data, right?

6. How often do hackers attack? (Hint: in seconds)
 There is a hacker attack every 39 seconds.
How many new malware are created every day?
 300,000 new malware created every day
Biggest obstacles for hackers (name 2)
 Multi-factor authentication
 Encryption
Average cost of data breaches in 2020?
 $150 million in 2020
Hacking Statistics

7. How do you protect your data?
Previous slide: https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/hacking-statistics/

8. Good Intentions

9.  Is your TV hanging with the vacuum?
 Do you have a smart doorbell?
 Security cameras? Lights?
 Garage door opener?
 Baby monitor?
Does your TV get a life without you?

10. Passwords
Selecting and remembering a strong password is a challenge!

11. Passwords
Selecting and remembering a strong password is a challenge!

12. Protecting Students & Their Data
Photo by C. Calongne
Game Design by AgileBill Firehawk

13. If you use virus protection software and a software
firewall, is your network and your data secure?
Trust in the Cloud

14. Webcam Security

15. The
Facade

16. How Do We Protect Our Data?
We need a secure home network for
Work
Home
Alexa
Vacuum
Webcam
Door Bell
Thermostat
Garage Door
Baby Monitor
Live Streaming
Music, TV & Entertainment

17. Novel Security
Measures

18. Innovative
Use of
Technology
What Are
the
Security
Risks?
USA Today. (2020, March 20) Vakis Demetriou’s drone walks his dog
amid a government-mandated lockdown in Limassol, Cyprus.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/have-you-seen/2020/03/20/man-
uses-drone-walk-dog-during-coronavirus-lockdown/2882768001/

19. Privacy
 https://teachprivacy.com/cartoon-the-history-of-privacy/
Passwords
 https://teachprivacy.com/the-funniest-password-recovery-
questions-and-why-even-these-dont-work/
40 Worrisome Hacking Statistics that Concern Us All in 2020
 https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/hacking-statistics/
For More Information

20. How Secure is Your Home Network?
Prof. Tracy Rose, Dr. Linda Hamons, & Dr. Cynthia Calongne

21. Questions? Be Safe Out There!