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Safe, Smart Computing
for the Independent Professional
Are you putting your time, business and reputation at risk?
The laptop has become the core business tool of independent professionals. It is used for presentations, proposals, confidential email, client documents, client records, CRM, company bookkeeping and a thousand other critical needs.
Essentially our business is contained on our laptops, yet the increasing complexity of technology and security, and the responsibilities we have to manage confidential information, creates unprecedented risk.
Not paying attention to or understanding the issues put our businesses, our clients’ privacy, and our reputations in jeopardy. The Internet world has become a dangerous place for computing. Threats abound from viruses, spyware and phishing attacks, not to mention hardware loss, theft, failures, software problems and simple human error.
Practical how-to’s
In this ‘must attend’ workshop tailored to the computing needs of independent professionals, you will be taught about the need and understanding of secure data backup, anti-malware software, passwords, biometrics, encryption and other elements of smart computing.
You will learn
- About mandated Canadian Federal privacy law that directly affects the independent professional
- Differences between public information and personal information
- Principles for protecting personal information
- Principles of safe, secure computing
- Securing your notebook
- Defending against invaders
- Backing up your files
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Join us as we discuss
- A strong password/passphrase
- Biometrics
- Securing your hardware
- Enabling your encryption
- Adjusting Internet Explorer
- Making sure Windows update is turned on
- Enabling local Windows security policies
- Exploring your computers security tools
- Cleaning your temporary and dormant files
- Your Windows firewall
- Anti-malware software
- Local vs On-line backup
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Presenter
Larry Keating – President and CEO, No Panic Computing
 Larry Keating is recognized as a Privacy by Design Ambassador by the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario – Privacy by Design Ambassadors advocate that privacy be built into systems from the outset; making privacy protection an organization's default mode of operation. Larry has served as founding chairman of the Ministers’ Technology Advisory Group for the Province of Ontario; member of the Chair’s Advisory Council on e-Government for the Province of Ontario and currently serves as a technical advisor to the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario for the Aboriginal Computer Literacy Program.
As president and CEO of Keating Technologies, Larry has brought more than $1.3 billion in technology and services to Canadians through his Total Market Management® outsourcing service to the industry’s leading high technology companies, and is a 3-time national winner of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies award.
Larry is a speaker and author on a variety of topics including technology trends, information security and economic opportunity through technology adoption.
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