Link before you Share: Managing Privacy Policies through Blockchain

Agniva Banerjee

11:00am Monday, 16 October 2017

An automated access-control and audit mechanism that enforces users’ data privacy policies when sharing their data across third parties, by utilizing privacy policy ontology instances with the properties of blockchain.

This year, two Political Science assistant professors—Dr. Ian Anson and Dr. William Blake—are scheduled for their mid-tenure reviews. The faculty have tasked two, two-person student committees to produce a student-led assessment report on the teaching performance of both professors. These committees need input from POLI students.

If you have completed at least one course with either Dr. Anson or Dr. Blake and would be willing to take a short, 3-minute survey about your experiences, please email one of the students listed below. If applicable, POLI students are eligible and encouraged to complete the survey for both professors. (Note: Survey results are confidential.)

Contacts for Dr. Anson’s review                 

  Tyler Lewis, tlewis5@umbc.edu      

  Nathaniel Wong, hu88697@umcb.edu  

Contacts for Dr. Blake’s review

   Summer Akhtar, aksumm1@umbc.edu

  John (“Jack”) Richards, jrich8@umbc.edu

Hello players! Today's mission will be "Super Troubles"! We are meeting in Sondheim 114 at 7pm!

Spring 2018 Registration Advising Appointment Information

http://advising.coeit.umbc.edu/registration/

Your actual earliest date that you may register is determined by the number of credits you have earned prior to the fall semester. You may review your anticipated registration date on the Registrar's Office website at the link below.

http://registrar.umbc.edu/files/2017/10/Spring-2018-Advanced-Registration-Appointment-Grid.pdf

What about Winter Classes?

http://www.umbc.edu/winter/

What If I'm a New Student for the upcoming Spring semester?

Newly admitted students for the spring semester may not register for courses until Orientation. Please sign up for winter Orientation.

http://orientation.umbc.edu/

What If I Still Have Questions?

The Intercultural Film Festival, on Oct. 4, showcased Biutiful, a film directed by academy-award winning Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. The entire film takes place in Barcelona, Spain. The film follows the life of Uxbal, a man who divides his life between his children and a career in crime. Uxbal finds out he is terminally ill, and so he sets to clean up the chaos that is his career.

As the movie progresses, the audience realizes that Uxbal co-runs a sweatshop with Chinese immigrants and assists African immigrants in making drug deals. Director Inarritu makes a grand statement about immigration through these secondary characters and their stories.

In fact, one of the main reasons why this film was chosen to be shown at the film festival is because of its overall theme of immigration. Every immigrant featured in this film lived with a great deal of pain. Whether it was emotional, mental or physical pain, each of them suffered. Life itself for them was a privilege.

Society also held many biases against these characters. Spanish society did not accept them, and therefore did not aid them in any way. In another scene of the film representing these biases, Uxbal tries to advertise his Chinese immigrants, promising they are hard, efficient workers, but the employer only agrees to consider them if they worked for very little pay.

The film, however, constantly emphasizes that these people needed to come to Spain in order to fulfill a basic human need — to live a full life. On top of the difficulties his immigrant business-partners face, Uxbal is also struggling. He is drowning in poverty and is caught in a constant cycle that is breaking his moral law in order to survive in society. By doing this, the film assures the audience that immigrants and citizens are very alike; they are all in need of help, they are all struggling and they are all human.

Another reason why this film was chosen for the Intercultural Film Festival is because of the multiculturalism it captures. Multiculturalism is the coexisting of different cultural of ethnic groups within a single society. The mere presence and attention to immigrants in the film displays multiculturalism. Also, three languages were spoken throughout the film: Spanish, Chinese and Wolof — another representation of multiculturalism.

UMBC’s Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication Department endorses this movie’s encouragement for interculturalism. Interculturalism is a balance of respect for each varying culture within a society. In other words, both the government and population recognize the value of both the cultural majority and minority and treat members of each equally. Interculturalism is absent throughout this film, and that in itself is a message.

Inarritu shows how difficult the lack of interculturalism makes life for minorities and encourages the audience to prompt a social change. Every person deserves to be treated with empathy and respect. Interculturalism has a chance to thrive in every society; it’s just up to the people to decide to fight for it and make this world biutiful.

The UMBC Cybersecurity program at USG Speaker Series Presents

The Internet of Things (IoT)

With speaker

William (Bill) Fisher, NCCoE Security Engineer

Building III – Room 4230 (Universities @ Shady Grove Campus)

Monday, October 30th 6:00-8:00 pm

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the inevitable result of years of Moore’s law – compact, cheap, chip platforms that can take ordinarily house hold items and make them data generating and collection devices that users can manage with their smart phone, web browser or their favorite automation platform. Physical proximity is no longer needed for things like cameras, door locks or thermostats. Instead users remotely access all of these “things” while on the go, even sharing some of their favorite things with friends and family, who need not own the thing, but simply be granted access through a web portal or mobile application. Like many technology trends before it, the IoT has brought great innovation but also great security challenges. These challenges go beyond standards and technology to economic and market forces that hinder security best practices, even for some of the most basic cyber hygiene. Join Bill Fisher of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence for a presentation on these challenges and basic mitigations organizations can put into place to help alleviate the risk that the IoT devices pose to consumers and the enterprise.

Speaker Bio:

Bill Fisher is a security engineer at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE). In this role, he is responsible for leading a team of engineers that work collaboratively with industry partners to address cybersecurity business challenges facing the nation. He leads the center’s Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) project, Mobile Application Single Sign On (SSO) for the Public Safety and First Responder Sector, and is part of the ITL Cybersecurity for IoT program. Prior to his work at the NCCoE, Mr. Fisher was a program security advisor for the System High Corporation in support of the Network Security Deployment division at the Department of Homeland Security. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from American University and a master’s degree in cybersecurity from Johns Hopkins University.

Host: Dr. Behnam Shariati (*protected email*) and UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Association at USG

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The UMBC Cybersecurity program at USG Speaker Series Presents

The Internet of Things (IoT)

With speaker

William (Bill) Fisher, NCCoE Security Engineer

Building III – Room 4230 (Universities @ Shady Grove Campus)

Monday, October 30th 6:00-8:00 pm

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the inevitable result of years of Moore’s law – compact, cheap, chip platforms that can take ordinarily house hold items and make them data generating and collection devices that users can manage with their smart phone, web browser or their favorite automation platform. Physical proximity is no longer needed for things like cameras, door locks or thermostats. Instead users remotely access all of these “things” while on the go, even sharing some of their favorite things with friends and family, who need not own the thing, but simply be granted access through a web portal or mobile application. Like many technology trends before it, the IoT has brought great innovation but also great security challenges. These challenges go beyond standards and technology to economic and market forces that hinder security best practices, even for some of the most basic cyber hygiene. Join Bill Fisher of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence for a presentation on these challenges and basic mitigations organizations can put into place to help alleviate the risk that the IoT devices pose to consumers and the enterprise.

Speaker Bio:

Bill Fisher is a security engineer at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE). In this role, he is responsible for leading a team of engineers that work collaboratively with industry partners to address cybersecurity business challenges facing the nation. He leads the center’s Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) project, Mobile Application Single Sign On (SSO) for the Public Safety and First Responder Sector, and is part of the ITL Cybersecurity for IoT program. Prior to his work at the NCCoE, Mr. Fisher was a program security advisor for the System High Corporation in support of the Network Security Deployment division at the Department of Homeland Security. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from American University and a master’s degree in cybersecurity from Johns Hopkins University.

Host: Dr. Behnam Shariati (*protected email*) and UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Association at USG

The post talk: Bill Fisher (NCCOE) on IoT Security @ USG 10/30 6-8PM appeared first on Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Description

We are just getting used to 802.11AC Gigabit Wireless.  The next iteration of the 802.11AX standards in 2018 will involve more devices (The Internet of Things), require new infrastructure and network design considerations.  Will you need IOT connectivity to support the mission of the educational enterprise?  Yes.  Are you prepared to lead your management in the right direction?  Let’s share with each other what we know and what the implications are for this fast-approaching new technology.

**Targeted Audience…All public and private K12 and K20 education institutions in Maryland                      

Presenters

Shawn Lucas, Eastern US Systems Engineering Manager, Ruckus Networks

Fernando Sabio, Principal Engineer, Concentus

Brian Smith, Senior Wi-Fi Engineer,  Concentus

Frank Roys, Business Development, Concentus