main students this semester vita whois?
Timothy R. Hill, Professor
Management Information Systems
San Jose´ State University
One Washington Square
San Jose´, Ca 95192-0244
408.924.3512 (voice)      hill_t@cob.sjsu.edu      408.924.7793 (fax)    
STUDENTS (Spring 08):
Bus118c - Info Security Management
  1. Current students: Click here to go to the WebCT/BB course site, infoSec central (login = 9 digit student ID, password = “spring”).
  2. Special note:  In Spring 08, 118c will be run experimentally as a snynchronous online course with live online instruction at the scheduled times: MW, 12noon-1:15pm, so you can stay at work and take the class during lunch!
  3. ‣Students will participate live (in real time) using Elluminate, a free (for SJSU students) customized tool for live online learning. This tool allows students to participate interactively from any location as long as they have an sound-enabled Internet-connected computer. (You may need to use headphones if you are in a lab or a cubicle at work.)
  4. This is a fun course on a hot topic - how to managing 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 now 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.
  5. Our textbook is Principles of Information Security, 2nd ed, by Whitman and Mattord from Course Technology, 2005 (0-619-21625-5). 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). The two come bundled together under the ISBN: 1418825573. This is your best value.
  6. This is a course about protecting, NOT “hacking.” You won’t earn an “A” by hacking into my machine–don’t even think about–but we will try to get you into the mind of the attackers so you will learn to “know your enemy.”
  7. 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.