For courses on Wednesday 2/5 I will NOT be having class. All courses on Purdue campus are cancelled at this point until 1PM. I will NOT be holding office hours today. We will reschedule the laboratory for today. Do the…
Knowledge assessment before coffee
I get asked because I have a degree what I know. I get challenged because I have an advanced degree if it is worthwhile. The first question is an assumption of inventory. The second is a biased question with a…
Prognostication: How to identify the next super power
In my class I told my students this simple test. With each successive significant change in power structure of geo-politics there were associated technologies. I like to think about exploitative technologies rather than destructive, but I digress. My test for…
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Motorcycle Monday
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Cyber forensics of mobile and embedded devices CNIT 58100 CFM
Course Description: Consumer technologies are rapidly moving forward with items integrating processing, storage, and transmission into their base functionality. The enterprise issues with bring your own device has rapidly expanded requirements on forensics investigators to address a plethora of mobile…
Cyber conflict and transnational cyber crime CNIT 58100 CFT
Course Description: This course will examine the spectrum of conflict from crime through cyber warfare. Specific case studies of transnational cyber crime and organizations engaged in such activities along with cyber conflict at the nation state level will be detailed…
Motorcycle Monday
Doggess of the snow
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Career reflections and advice to my students
I have been reflecting on my career and how I got to where I am in my professional life as the last year winds down and the new year begins. Part of the reflection is due to the on going…
People divided over impact of ‘Deep Web’
Motorcycle Monday
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2013 Blogging Report Card
You can click HERE for an interactive report from WordPress. Basics! About 45K visitors up from 39K in 2012 121 Posts in 2013 up from 77 in 2012 #1 Visited Post 2013 Iron Butt Rally Sunset Top referring sites Twitter…
2014 Information Security Wish List
It is easy to say how bad things are going to be, or to cry foul at the rough treatment by bad guys. The victim mentality of the western world is literally boring me to tears. Whining about how big…
2014 Prognostications
I stopped evaluating my previous prognostications year to year. It just wasn’t worth it when some troll wanted to argue over whether something happened 80 percent or 65 percent. So I’ll let the reader judge my 2013 prognostications and see…