Digital Security Webinars for Journalists and Human Rights Advocates in Asia Pacific

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), in partnership with the Border Centerfor Journalists and Bloggers (BCJB), offered a series of eight one-hour webinars for journalists and civil society advocates on digital security to further enhance their learning, develop new skills and adopt better practices and digital security technologies. The goal is to help journalists and human rights representatives protect their information, data, devices and communications against digital security risks. This is part of an ICFJ global digital security program for journalists and human rights representatives. It is supported by the Meta Journalism Project.

This program is based on years of experience that both ICFJ and BCJB bring in training journalists to protect their data confidentiality, integrity and availability from digitally skilled adversaries.

Webinar recordings are now available:

Webinar 1: Protecting social media

• Date and time: March 29, Tuesday 10:00 AM GMT+8
• Subtopics: 
  • Privacy settings 
  • Adequate balance of personal and professional data on social media
  • Preventing hacking of social media accounts

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Webinar 2: Facing online harassment

• Date and time: March 31, Thursday 10:00 AM GMT+8
• Subtopics:
  • Facing bot and trolls
  • Preventing doxxing
  • What to do before defamation campaigns
  • Countering online harassment best practices

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Webinar 3: Covering social unrest and violent demonstrations

• Date and time: April 5, Tuesday 10:00 AM GMT+8
• Subtopics:
  • Planning phase
  • Setting coordination field-newsroom
  • Securing communications
  • Conducting interviews safely
  • What to do in cross-fire situations

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Webinar 4: Digital security basic tools

• Date and time: April 12, Tuesday 10:00 AM GMT+8
• Subtopics: 
  • Strong and unique passwords
  • Antivirus software
  • Up-to-date software
  • The double factor of authentication
  • Protecting anonymity: VPN and TOR

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Webinar 5: Digital security basic practices

• Date and time: April 19, Tuesday 10:00 AM GMT+8
• Subtopics: 
  • Early identification of spear-phishing attacks
  • Safe use of public WiFi networks.
  • Information back-up practices

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Webinar 6: Protecting communications

• Date and time: April 26, Tuesday 10:00 AM GMT+8
• Subtopics: 
  • Using end-to-end encryption
  • Protecting emails
  • Encrypted emails
  • Encrypted messaging systems (Signal, Messenger, WhatsApp)

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Webinar 7: From risk assessment to security protocols and strategies

• Date and time: May 3, Tuesday 10:00 AM GMT+8
• Subtopics:
  • Evaluating risk
  • Recognizing vulnerabilities and strengths
  • Designing a security protocol
  • Designing a security strategy

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Webinar 8: Advanced digital security

• Date and time: May 10, Tuesday 10:00 AM GMT+8
• Subtopics:
  • Use OpenPGP encryption tools
  • Creation of PGP keys
  • Strong passphrase
  • Mailvelope: Encrypting emails
  • Encrypting files

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