Timothy R. Hill, Chair
Management Information Systems
San Jose´ State University
 
Note: As department chair, I’m  constantly inundated and am running
behind on just about everything. My apologies if I haven’t followed
up on something you’re expecting from me. I ‘m doing my best and
I absolutely don’t mind reminders, recriminations, etc. In fact,
I welcome them. Email is the best way to get through to me.
 
 
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One Washington Square
San Jose´, Ca 95192-0244
408.924.3512 (voice)      hill_t@cob.sjsu.edu      408.924.7793 (fax)    
STUDENTS (Fall 08):
Bus118c - Info Security Management (hybrid classroom/synchronous online)
  1. Special note:  In Fall 08, 118c will be run as a hybrid classroom/synchronous online course which means for any given class day, you can choose to be in the classroom with me or join the video/voice/whiteboard interactive session from work, home, your dorm room, Starbucks, or wherever you can get Internet access.
  2. We specifically scheduled the class during lunchtime (MW, 12noon-1:15pm) so working students can take the course during their lunch hour without needing to drive into campus, park, etc.
  3. The online learning environment we’ll be using, Elluminate, is like Webex but customized for teaching. It runs on Windows, Macs, and Linux. SJSU has a site license so it’s free for you (and me).
  4. Through Elluminate, we can see, hear & text each other, write on the slides, share applications - pretty much anything you could do in a traditional class and more, actually. We tried this last spring as an experiment and it was a great success. It’s fun and it works.
  5. This is a fun course on a hot topic - how to manage information security in an organization (not on your home PC, though some of the same practices apply). It’s a great area to be knowledgeable in, since all organizations are looking for help with security these days and into the foreseeable future. But it’s also an area that is evolving by the minute, faster even than the technology itself, so besides learning what’s going on now, you need to learn how to keep yourself up to date after you graduate. We’ll try to get you going on that in this course.
  6. Our textbook is Principles of Information Security, 3rd ed, by Whitman and Mattord from Course Technology, 2007 (ISBN 13: 978-1-4239-0177-8; ISBN 10: 1-4239-0177-0). We’ll also use a lab manual called Hands-On Information Security Lab Manual, 2nd ed, by Whitman, Mattord and Shackleford also from Course Technology, 2005 (0-619-21631-X). You can get a relatively good deal when you buy them bundled together at the bookstore.
  7. This is a course about protecting, NOT “hacking.” You won’t earn an “A” by hacking into my machine (quite the opposite!) but we will try to get you into the mind of the attackers so you will learn to “know your enemy.”
  8. We’ll be doing a lot of teamwork in this course. Teamwork is a fact of life for the modern workforce and employers have been pressuring us to give you more experience with it. Since most of you are commuters, we’ll employ the latest, greatest technology (Elluminate) to support team meetings remotely via the Internet.
  9. Here’s the moodle-based class website for current students.
  10. And here’s the Elluminate calendar site for SJSU where you’ll find our class meeting links.