SGU, 23 Feb 2010. A seven day workshop was conducted by the IT faculty of Swiss German University at Stella Maris International School in Gading Serpong, Tangerang, as a way for Swiss German University to give something to the community. This time, Swiss German University held a workshop entitled "Hacking and Countermeasure Workshop".

In the networking realm, such as the internet, network intrusion, popularly known as hacking, has been a major concern. Not only has the web or application developer to worry about the performance and reliability of his program, but he has to also assure the client that his program is invulnerable to network loopholes.

In this workshop, the participants which consisted of teachers and students were given a perspective about the hackers' mind. "To prevent a hacker, first we must be a hacker" is the concept to countermeasure a hacking scheme in the internet. Having a good understanding of how hackers work gives a good knowledge of how to prevent this from happening. The next step is that participants will be given a lesson on how to protect the network from network loophole.

In the end, the workshop aims to build developer awareness against any network intrusion. Not only have they to be a reliability-oriented and performance-oriented programmer, they also have to be a security-oriented programmer to provide an impenetrable network loophole defense.

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