HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3472

Information Security Events 

Event Archives  |  Upcoming Events

Event Archives  Top


2012 Jan 25 Dalhousie Data Privacy Day
Michael Power
eHealth & Privacy: Issues and Implications for Society
 video YouTube video link | slidespdf file
Peter Morin
Tango Down! How Targeted Cyber Attacks Affect Privacy
 video YouTube video link | slidespdf file
John Bullock
1984 at twenty-eight: The State of Surveillance
 video YouTube video link | slidespdf file
Tom Murdock
Identity Theft
 video YouTube video link | slidespdf file
Ryan McNutt — Check yourself before you wreck yourself: Managing your digital identity in the social media age
 video YouTube video link | slidespdf file
2011 Aug 22 Secure Mobile
Computingpdf file
A departmental presentation focusing on the information security requirements for mobile workers.
2011 Jun 02 Technology versus Privacy?pdf file A presentation by John Bullock at the 2011 Maritime Access & Privacy Workshop (abstracts)
2011 Jan 26
video (167MB)
slidespdf file
bio
Dalhousie's 4th annual Data Privacy Day conference was mentioned by:
[Note: The videos are large and will take a few minutes to load.]
video (350MB)
slidespdf file
bio
video (143MB)
slidespdf file
bio
video (295MB)
bio
video (189MB)
slidespdf file
bio
2010 May 19 Identity as a Collaborative Foundation
Wimba requires IE or FF (Windows) and Safari or FF (Mac)
ITS arranged for special guest Kim Cameron to give a public lecture on Digital Identity.  The video and slides are available to all.  Just follow the link and login as a 'Participant' (no password is required).  Note: Audio quality improves markedly at the three minute mark.
2010 Jan 28 Privacy Nuts & Boltspdf file
Patriot Act Reality Checkpdf file
Maintain control of your private datapdf file
Privacy 911pdf file
On the 28th Dalhousie celebrated its 3rd annual Data Privacy Day (called Data Protection Day in Europe).  The lunchtime keynote was by CIO Dwight Fischer.  Other presenters were John Bullock, David Fraser, Dawn Jutla and Bob Doherty (access and privacy consultant).
2009 May 25 Practical Cryptographypdf file A presentation made at the Atlantic Universities and Colleges Technology Conference (AUCTC).
2009 May 14 Healthy Data Practices:Managing the risks to ITpdf file A lunch-time presentation made to the Department of Family Medicine.
2009 Jan 27 Preventing Data Breaches with...pdf file

Data Protection: The Tactical&Practicalpdf file
In celebration of international Data Protection Day ITS hosted a 'lunch & learn' event.  Presenters were Sandy Hounsell, from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and ITS' John Bullock.
2008 Nov 20 Big Picture Physical Security Thinking: The ISM view (abstract) A presentation at the Canadian Campus Card Workshop.  Official program link is here  Slides not currently available.
2008 Oct 30 2008 Security & Updf file Slides from Dalhousie's 2nd annual Cyber Security event.  The events coincide with Canada's Cyber Security Awareness Month.
2008 Mar 28 Privacy and Release of
Personal Informationpdf file
Part of the National Council on Ethics in Human Research workshop called Training in Research Ethics (Social Sciences).
2008 Mar 11 Privacy in a Networked World pdf file A presentation made to the Integrated Informatics Studies class (INFX 1600/2600/3601) as part of Dalhousie's Bachelor of Informatics program.
2008 Jan 28 Data Privacy Day

Download our poster pdf file for your own department.
To mark the day a Think before you bin it poster was developed and copies attached to paper recycling bins and at other locations where paper records may be inappropriately discarded.
2007 Oct 30 2007 Cyber Security
Awareness pdf file
The 2007 Cyber Security Awareness Day presentation.  The event was open to all in the Dalhousie community.
2007 Aug 16 Secure Mobile
Computing pdf file
A departmental presentation focusing on laptop computer security.
2007 Jun 28 Information Security
Talk #5 pdf file
Passwords: A brief history, current vulnerabilities & threats, and mitigating steps
2007 May 27 MFDs: New Features Bring New Risks
PDFpdf file  or  HTMLhtml
Dalhousie information security presentations made at CANHEIT 2007.
Using OCTAVE for an Info Security Risk Assessment PDFpdf file
2007 Feb 22 Information Security
Talk #4 pdf file
A debriefing on the Reboot 2007 Privacy & Security Conference held Feb 14-16. (listen to similar keynote here)

To view these documents you must have a PDF reader such as Foxit Reader or Apple's built-in Preview on Mac OS X.

Upcoming Events  Top


2012 May 15 EDUCAUSE Security This EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference will be in Indianapolis.  Workshops on 15th; then 2-day conference.
2012 Jun 04 AUCTC The Atlantic Universities and Colleges Technology Conference is from Jun 4 to 6 at SMU in Halifax.
2012 Jun 10 CANHEIT The 10th annual Canadian Higher Education Information Technology Conference is in Saskatoon from Jun 10 to 13
2012 Oct 01 SecTor Canada's answer to BlackHat.  The conference is in Toronto on Oct 2nd & 3rd with workshops on the 1st.

Events listed are ones the Information Security Manager feels warrant consideration by at least some in the Dalhousie community.  Topics covered will be Information Security and/or Privacy.  Conferences are limited to those in North America.  Other lists of interest can be found here and here