M. E. Kabay,
PhD, CISSP-ISSMP
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DIRECTORY TO THE WEB SITE:Click here for a list of brief descriptions of each section of the Web site and a link to a narrated PowerPoint show explaining what's where. CURRENT TEACHING / OFFICE HOURS PDFCURRENT COURSE LINKS:IS102 IS240 IS342 IS406B_____________________________________________________________________ LATEST FILE UPDATES:Political
Action Blog: links to articles, sites, petitions and events
to prompt political action. 2009-12-04 Republican "Special Employees of Insurance Industry"
Committee Sends Fund-Raising Lies to Physicians ______________________________________________________________________ September 2009: Protecting Your Reputation in Cyberspace PDF. This paper looks at how we can use e-mail and other electronic communications responsibly and professionally. It is intended to provide useful information for corporate INFOSEC awareness programs. August 2009: Waving the Red Flag: Rules for Reducing Identity Theft PDF. Commentary on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for banks and other financial institutions for Red Flag guidelines against identity theft. Documentation for Less Work: Will this Have to be Done Again? PDF. Thoughts on keeping records of our work. Preparing for the Next Solar Max: PDF. The next cycle of solar storms seems to be causing concern among astrophysicists and critical infrastructure specialists. Get ready for trouble. June 2009: Understanding Computer Crime Studies and Statistics v6: PDF HTML Why one should be careful not to over-interpret published surveys and studies of crimes, especially computers crimes; and how to make sense of sampling, sample sizes, confidence intervals and contingency tables. Updated December 2008 with new material on confounded variables and in June 2009 with minor updates. Non-narrated lecture notes on Making Sense of Statistics in Information Security presented at ISSA Hartford, CT on June 16, 2009. PPT PDF Non-narrated lecture notes on Legal Aspects of Investigating & Prosecuting Computer Crimes presented at 6th Annual MSIA Graduate Security Conference in a workshop on June 10, 2009. PPT PDF Workshop on Intellectual Property Law --
13th Colloquium on Information Systems Security Education: Bootcamp
on Sunday 31 May 2009. Designed for teachers as an overview of issues
and a collection of resources and slides for free use in noncommercial
teaching. May 2009: DOJ -- Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations (July 2002) Index added May 2009 PDF Pepys into the Corridors of Power: Deciding how long a student should speak, university-style. HTML PDF System Logging -- Written for the MSIA 2.0 program's Seminar 1, Week 6, this commentary, subtitled "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK: System Logging," is not a Monty Python skit. HTML PDF April 2009: IA Specialists Need to Communicate: Guide and Checklist for Expository Writing -- In explaining to our information assurance (IA) graduate students why they end up writing around 100,000 words of expository writing by the time they finish our 18-month master’s program,< http://infoassurance.norwich.edu/ > we (instructors and staff) always insist on the practical value of fluent writing. Being able to respond quickly and effectively to requests from colleagues and supervisors asking for clarification of new policies or of requests for additional resources obviously makes obvious sense; in adHdition, being able to respond succinctly and diplomatically to angry customers (we teach our students to think of everyone depending on them as customers) can have long-term benefits to the organization and to the individual. HTML PDF Parkerian Hexad -- This narrated PowerPoint file (PPT) from the MSIA program introduces the concepts of the Parkerian Hexad -- the six fundamental atomic, non-overlapping attributes of information that we protect in information assurance. The Hexad is replacing the Classic Triad (Confidentiality - Integrity - Availability) as the foundation of IA theory. Also availble as a PowerPoint Show (PPSX) that starts by itself in PowerPoint. PPT PPSX (in 25 MB ZIP archives) March 2009: US DoD Annual Estimates of Information Warfare Capabilities and Commitment of the PRC 2002-2009 -- The Annual Report to Congress on the Military Power of the People's Republic of China from the US Department of Defense has been issued every year since 2002. Reading through all the reports from 2002 through 2009 provides valuable perspective on the DoD view of Chinese information warfare capabilities. The following is a simple compilation of extracts from the Annual Reports bearing on information warfare capabilities and commitment of the PRC and the PLA, including specific commentary about industrial espionage sponsored by agencies in the PRC. PDF Frequently Corrected Errors -- I’ve been editing technical writing
since 1970 and notice that some errors keep popping up in many writers’
papers. I’ve been collecting the comments I make about these errors
and hope that you will find some of them helpful. Introduction to Database Management System Administration & Security -- a 90-slide overview of security aspects of DBMS theory and practice. Created for MSIA GI512, the new Seminar 1 starting in June 2009.
Narrated PPTX file in ZIP (16 MB) Narrated PPT file in ZIP (23 MB) Non-narrated PPTX file (6 MB) Script as PDF (350 KB) February 2009: Computer-Aided Consensus(TM) -- CAC -- is a useful extension of brainstorming and the Delphi Technique for exploring and analyzing project priorities, resource estimates, and any other discussion topics in groups. Narrated PPT file (in ZIP) available along with PDF and MP3 versions. On Writing v9: new material about top-down writing. PDF HTML January 2009: Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders, Second Edition: a Review PDF The National Institute of Justice has issued its second edition of this classic guide. Read the review and download the document. It is required reading for all information assurance professionals who could have contact with a crime scene involving computers and networks. The End of Passwords PDF Why I hate passwords as a method for authentication. Why Study Crimes? PDF What are the issues raised by virus-writing and hacking courses? This essay, based on columns I wrote for Network World Security Strategies, was used in the MSIA program. Using E-mail Safely and Well (v2): HTML PDF Compilation of several short papers published from 1995 through 2007; updated and reformatted January 2009. December 2008: Computer Security Handbook, 5th Edition front matter, table of contents for every chapter and index as PDF. Bosworth, Sy, M. E. Kabay & E. Whyne (2009), eds. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-71652-5. 2044 pp. Two volumes. Index. (Publication date February 2009).
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