How to Identify and Mitigate Vulnerabilities in Media Systems
How to Identify and Mitigate Vulnerabilities in Media Systems
Overview
In media organizations that are transitioning to network-based production infrastructures, ensuring the security and integrity of production systems is everyone’s responsibility. This intensive 3-hour live virtual course has been specifically designed for media production technicians and engineers.
In this Mini Master Class, you'll learn about identifying cybersecurity vulnerabilities and the best tools and workflows to address them and discover which processes can be automated and which require manual expertise. The course includes demonstrations and hands-on exercises on vulnerability scanning to provide a deeper understanding of their operation
Who it is for:
- Broadcast production technicians and engineers with intermediate knowledge of IT and networks with intermediate knowledge of IT & networks
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Meet your faculty
Jakob Pfister
IT security engineer at ARGE Rundfunk-Betriebstechnik's Information Security and Technology deptIT security engineer at ARGE Rundfunk-Betriebstechnik's Information Security and Technology dept. (common subsidiary of ARD and ZDF in Germany).
Jakob started as a broadcast system engineer (mainly testing NLEs/Storage) and shifting focus to security over time. Since 2012, Jakob has been working full time in IT security covering topics such as Penetration-Testing Broadcast (and other IT-) Systems, building custom testing-software and auditing concepts and deployments. Furthermore, Jakob has been giving training courses on IT security and pushing open source software. Jakob is active in EBU MCS group with focus on security testing.