2008 Woodie Awards
ISU Student Looks for Ways to Keep others safe from 0n-line threats
Tyler Doyle
Issue date: 2/22/06 Section: News
- Page 1 of 2 next >
|
Bambolo, a current ISU Presidential Intern and a fourth year student at ISU majoring in computer software development and vocal music is currently working on a project.
Bambolo's project, as part of his Presidential Internship, focuses on helping ISU and students protect themselves from on-line threats. Bambolo has been working on this project for the past semester.
His major concern is that people aren't informed of the risks that they need to be aware of when they're online, he said.
When people don't know what to watch out for, there can be serious problems, Bambolo said.
If a user's password is uncovered by a hacker, they can cause disaster on a network, he said.
"They can infect the system with a trojan horse-a form of software providing a door to the system to the outside," Bambolo said.
When people know how to protect themselves from trojan horses, viruses, and other attacks from hackers, Bambolo said they will be much safer. This is why he has started this project.
Bambolo's project is very large, encompassing many aspects of computer security, he said.
Bambolo is creating a layout for ISU's computer center to implement a campus-wide security system for every computer as part of his project
"This project will give ISU an idea of what's needed for security," he said.
Every business and organization today is concerned about the safety of their systems, and ISU is no different, Bambolo said.
"I think security is very important in all establishments right now," he said.
The downside to implementing this part of the project is cost, Bambolo said.
"Some universities have entire departments working on security," he said, "ISU doesn't have that kind of money."
But Bambolo says that we should still have this kind of protection, to ensure student information is not compromised.