IAP 2019 Activities by Category: Computers: Hardware and Devices

An Introduction to User Experience (UX) Fundamentals

Christopher S. LaRoche, User Experience Consultant

	Jan/11	Fri	12:00PM-01:30PM	1-150

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None

As the usability profession evolved to become the User Experience field and has grown exponentially the past decade, understanding and defining user experience or “UX” has become increasingly important and difficult at the same time. This presentation will discuss and define what user experience encompasses today. Additionally, the presentation will focus on the primary roles and the common methods of practice used within the field, as well as when you should use them. The presentation will also include a practical discussion and definition of user research and usability evaluation. Finally, we will examine the increasingly important role design and design thinking is having within the overall UX practice.

Sponsor(s): ATIC Lab
Contact: Christopher Laroche, 7-143, 617 324-9016, LAROCHE@MIT.EDU

(CANCELED) Cyber Challenges with Routine Engineering Designs

Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Energy Transition Partners, COL (Ret) Robert Banks

Jan/24	Thu	10:00AM-12:00PM	E62-250

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Will Cybersecurity shift from Tolerance and Survivability for Moving Target Defenses change our current outcome? Has the increasing impact of data’s four V’s (Volume, Velocity, Variety & Veracity) underscore cybersecurity by routine engineering designs? Are the numbers of malware attacks, their costs and time-to-fix outpaced Social Norms and current policies? Does cyber-defense strategy need new Social Norms to deter the Malware, Botnets and Espionage? Should we move beyond compliance, monitoring and industry partnership of sharing threat information? Can cyber policies address today’s challenges of misaligned incentives, information asymmetries and externalities, so what can business do till then? This is more than a technology discussion, rather a presentation based on industry, government and research focus on changes to the current perspectives.

Everardo Ruiz SM ’00 and COL (Ret) Robert Banks will lead this discussion.

Sponsor(s): Alumni Association, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Trish Chane, 33-413, 617 258-6525, pchane@mit.edu

(CANCELED) Cybersecurity - Reducing Your Attack Surface

Roy Wattanasin

Feb/01	Fri	12:00PM-01:00PM	open

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None, Open To All, Invite your friends & colleagues!

Whether you realize it or not, end user cybersecurity plays a major role in everyones' lives: from your siblings to your grandparents. It affects your family, friends and even your colleagues. It is critical for all to understand how to be safer with today's online threats.

Come to this 1-hour conversation to understand and learn more. Bring your questions to this information security open-ended general session for all. Hear from Roy about his thoughts and recommendations regarding the topics below.

(This is designed to be a session for the MIT community in order to reduce your attack surface. Feel free to invite your friends and colleagues!)

A. Backing Your Data

B. Administrative Access

C. Operating System (OS) Patching

D. Third-party patching

E. Defenses For You

F. Passwords

G. Wireless Connectivity / Internet-VPN Usage

H. Social Networking, "What People Know About you?"

I. Maintaining Your Privacy and "Being Aware"

J. Hack the world

K. Any other security/privacy questions to ask us

Contact: Roy Wattanasin, roywatt@mit.edu

Cybersecurity Insight by Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan

Keri Pearlson, Executive Director of CAMS

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

The event will be organized by Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS)

Your personal information is likely out there. In 2018, malicious actors collected profile information from over 2 billion Facebook users. Photographs, thumbprints, retina scans and other identifying details of more than a billion people, collected by Aadhaar was offered on the web. Cybersecurity of physical systems, not just data and information, continued to become a big threat. Ransomware, phishing, and other attacks continue to rise. We often say “The bad guys are getting better faster than the good guys.” Who is going to stop these attacks when the talent gap for professionals to help protect organizations is also rising? There are more jobs than people to fill them. Not all cybersecurity jobs are technical jobs; many need people with an understanding of the business and organizational cybersecurity issues. Want to know more about cybersecurity? Join us for our 2019 IAP activity in January.

Our IAP is the ideal opportunity to learn about cybersecurity technology and management. Our IAP will be organized into 4 days of modules on some of the most current thinking about cybersecurity. Our partner, Kaspersky, will lead some technical sessions, and the CAMS research team will lead other managerial sessions. The sessions will be informal, fun, interactive, and thought-provoking.

More information about this IAP can be found on the CAMS Events page and this form can be used to register.

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Kathryn Means, E62-571, (617) 324-4253, kmeans@mit.edu

January 22 AM

	Jan/22	Tue	10:00AM-01:00PM	E51-335

Think Security: During the first session, researchers from Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan and scientists from Kaspersky Labs will share research from ICS CERT files and new ways of APT hunting. Right before lunch, the team will share their security maturity model for industrial internet security.