3 ●‎ Oral Presentation

Oral and Visual Presentation:

• Personally research an IT security breach or an enterprise security problem.
• Critically analyze the cause and impact of the breach/problem.
• Provide a critical evaluation of how the breach occurred/problem evolved.
• Analyze how it could have been prevented.
• Offer an analysis, weakness, mitigating factors (if any), and steps to take and recommendations. Cite several scholarly and practitioner sources.

Rationale:

• Making a professional oral presentation is an important skill.
• The communicated message: Demonstrate insight of the issue, offer an analysis and reflection of why it happened.
• What could or should have been done?
• What do you do and where to take it from the moment of the discovery?
• Demonstrate your understanding and thoughtful and insightful reflection that it is evident when you have a good grasp of
  • (i) how to respond to the security problem,
  • (ii) how it could have been handled better (if applicable), and
  • (iii) what can be learned from the event.

Please see the ORAL RUBRIC on the SYLLABUS

The following will help you in this process:

• Explain and analyze the context do discover and explore
  • why there is a problem,
  • what are the implicit and explicit risks associated with the identified problem,
  • where the risk is most critical,
  • what might be the time and financial impact and
  • the loss impact
• Explore and suggest how this security problem should be addressed. When possible, speak to the different aspects that need to be addressed (e.g. the legal and financial implication (e.g. privacy, branding, credibility, ...), procedures, policies, training, communication, etc. This should include how you prevent or maximally mitigate the threat.

Presentations will be evaluated initially by members of an identified cohort.

TECHNICAL:

1. Prepare a professional video presentation of between 7 and 12 minutes.

2. Upload the video to a location to share with the instructor and the class (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, your SOIS web space, Techsmiths Screencast.com or Camtasia Relay or a similar video presentation technology, etc.). It is your choice to list the presentation as public or private.

3. Submit the URL to the Course Management System. Please test the URL before submission, by logging out (if needed) and going there as a 'new' visitor because your link has to be shareable with the class.

PRESENTATION SKILLS AND ADVICE:

Focus on your presentation skills and how to make a good recording. Test your mic. If the quality is bad, consider using a good cell phone for example to do the recording, then layer the audio over the visual. Camtasia Studio can do a great job with this effort. (There are free tools available -- see http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-screen-capture-tool.htm) Consider doing a Websearch of how to do a good oral/video presentation. Your voice :

Do you enunciate well; do you speak to fast?

Do you inflect well and pause appropriately?

Does your voice and your virtual persona create the expectation of an interesting presentation?

Is your presence professional -- that your have confidence and good thought control of your message?

Key skills to acquire with this assignment is to network (resources and people) to be best able to develop a matured and well reflected analysis and response. Secondly, it is vital to be able to communicate clearly and professionally. In addition to demonstrating your solid cognitive skills of reasoning, be sure your presentation is done with confidence, and an awareness of your audience - to adequately inform them with background facts and insights where needed. Make sure the technical quality of your presentation is good. If the technical quality draws attention to itself, you have an issue. I strongly suggest you do a 30 second mock presentation to test small sample presentations to tweak and eliminate issues.

Network is my way for "research" Seek out experts to help you think through things to be professional and thorough. Depending on your topic, you would seek out the advice from different experts, e.g.

• At the university, the University Information and Technical Services (UITS) security staff will be a great resource.
• You can also see out online listservs based on the topic.
• You can also pursue twitter threads around certain terms.
• You may search out certain key topics in the news, and if you find a great article, it will often be in a more specialized publication. Try to contact the author with further questions