Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Mentor/Supervising Professor Name
Alférez, Harvey
Description
Cybersecurity is a very important factor that is often overlooked until one becomes a victim of hackers and viruses. One of the main institutions that are caught off guard by cyber issues are high schools. Adventist high schools often fall into this issue as well. It is very dangerous because of the sensitive information handled on school networks as well as the financial loss that cyber security attacks may cause. Moreover, just a few Adventist high schools have IT staff who are qualified to protect the school from cyberattacks or to help with recovery. Therefore, our contribution is to create a tutorial of pfSense, an easy-to-use tool, for Adventist High Schools in the Carolina, Southeastern, and South Central Conferences. pfSense offers a firewall, LAN router, and VPN router on one software. This project was requested by the Southern Union to the Center for Innovation and Research in Computing (CIRC), Southern Adventist University.
Included in
Educational Technology Commons, Industrial Technology Commons, Technology and Innovation Commons
Improving Network Security for high schools in Carolina, Southeastern, and South Central conference
On Campus
Cybersecurity is a very important factor that is often overlooked until one becomes a victim of hackers and viruses. One of the main institutions that are caught off guard by cyber issues are high schools. Adventist high schools often fall into this issue as well. It is very dangerous because of the sensitive information handled on school networks as well as the financial loss that cyber security attacks may cause. Moreover, just a few Adventist high schools have IT staff who are qualified to protect the school from cyberattacks or to help with recovery. Therefore, our contribution is to create a tutorial of pfSense, an easy-to-use tool, for Adventist High Schools in the Carolina, Southeastern, and South Central Conferences. pfSense offers a firewall, LAN router, and VPN router on one software. This project was requested by the Southern Union to the Center for Innovation and Research in Computing (CIRC), Southern Adventist University.