Welcome students to the fall semester. You will find all of this information on the WebCT course site too. If you do not have your new career account login get to CTIS and get it quick. All of the articles for each weeks readings will be found there. This semester you will have between 4 and 11 readings per week. 
Each week a student will be required to present the topic and there will be a moderated discussion by me after words. We will be assigning readings the first night of classes and yes I will be leading the first nights discussion.
The readings:
- “What is networking security?”
- “A research agenda for network security”
- “Knowledge centric security: Decision skills”
- “Network forensics: More than incident response”
- “Security through virtualization”
- “Awareness: Securing the known and forgetting the unknown”
- “Brittle security models versus resilient security needs”
- “Cyber warfare and Cyber Terrorism”
- “Risk: Vulnerability through threats”
- “Cyber crime, computer crime, security factors”
- “Standards and practices”
I always try and throw some ringers (strange papers) into the groupings. Your job is to figure out why. Each student will be required to send out a paper to the entire class on the topic too. And, no duplicating each other or the other papers in the class. That is required the Sunday night before that weeks class.
We have an interesting opportunity for getting involved in a national effort for blog tanking and we will talk about that on the first night.
You will be writing a semester paper and preparing a presentation for the end of the semester. You should have an idea of what you want to investigate and write about. There is a structured paper requirement for the course so see the syllabus for more information.
Any questions before the first night of class, or suggested topics you want to discuss put them in the comments here. If you’re not registered on the blog use your first initial last name as a login ID, if you don’t want to post here send me an email through WebCT.
