This video discusses in detail some expectations and suggestions for distance learning students. The video is a very informal look at the different elements of a distance learning course and in a very simple and calm manner the syllabus of…
Samuel Liles awarded DHS Fellowship
I got asked about this a lot over the last week and thought I would announce it here. I am very honored to be the recipient of this award and look forward to the relationships and doors that it opens…
The Air Force is moving ahead with work on the cyber command
The Air Force is moving ahead with work on the cyber command (LINK). Air Force moving ahead with Cyber Command The Air Force is moving ahead on establishing its new Cyber Command, searching for permanent facilities and planning meetings to…
Future technology
The Army has embarked on a 200 billion dollar project to increase the technology that it uses and has some interesting implications. When we talk about security we often talk about defense in depth. In computers it is a series…
What you should put in a grad school personal statement
Depending on the school and university they are going to want to know a few things about you. Where have you been, what are you doing, and how will that effect where you are going. Most of the personal statements…
A mild rebuttal to John Robb’s open source warfare
“The US military is on the slow path to the realization that nation-building — from reconstruction to other forms of traditional COIN dogma that serve to return legitimacy to the government — doesn’t work. Politics and populations in our new…
Baby boomers….
They were born from the greatest generation. Their parents lived through depression, fought in an enormous war, and built the American economy and industry. The parents of the baby boomers created the American dream and then spoiled it into delirium…
Cyber-warfare threat or hype?
Center of gravity constructs look at the strategic, operational, and tactical elements of an adversary to identify weak points in the over all capability of resistance. Cyber-warfare attacks the computing and communication infrastructure of the adversary through a variety of…
Economic collapse
Is it possible that economic warfare could be waged on the United States or that we could be in the middle of a form of economic warfare? Some would say business is warfare and there is an expansive library of…
Partial Bibliography of cyber-warfare topics
This list is not comprehensive but a selected sampling of work going down the path of cyber-warfare.
Spring 2008 Course “Book Adoptions”
63873, 64058 ITS 130 Platform Technologies (T-Th 08:00 – 09:50pm) Eckert, Jason W. & Schitka, M. John, “MCSE Guide to Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network, Enhanced“ Thomson Course Technology, 2005, ISBN 0619217537 63863 ITS 135 Operating Systems Technologies…
What you want that piled higher and deeper?
What it costs for a PUC faculty subsidized PhD at Purdue University. I keep getting asked how I like my chance and opportunity to get a free PhD at Purdue University. Of course I had to apply just like everybody…
ITS 100 Video “Warriors of the net”
This video is a quick over view and fairly humorous look at the network and how it works. If you have no experience at all this is a good primer. If you know everything this is a pretty neat metaphor…
We are in a time of crisis, but what does that mean?
When people defend the Patriot Act, the warrant-less wiretaps, and the other infringements on American civil liberties, they often point out that we are in a time of crisis and these sorts of things are necessary during a crisis. What…
Dear Britney!
I think I may be the only person who really feels sorry for Britney Spears. I do not find any kind of entertainment in watching the interviews or the VMAs where she performs very badly. When I look at Britney,…