CS-411 Information Warfare
REMINDERS:
Three short papers are due by the end of the semester. A short paper is 800-words total, answering any three questions posed for a given class. The paper is due by class time. As a note, today (25 April) is the last class with questions left, so if you have not handed in any short papers, you will be busy!
One long paper, of 4000 words, is due Thursday, April 28, 2016. You may wish to, but are not required to, run the topic by me before diving in. As well, per the original course syllabus, you need to ask two students to review your paper and you should review two other student’s papers. When you turn in your final paper, indicate who the reviewers were and whose papers you reviewed. You may also be asked to present portions of your paper during the final class.
To keep everyone’s sanity, that means you should have a draft of the paper by now. That way people can review your paper and you can incorporate edits prior to the paper deadline.
Welcome to CS-411
From the course catalog:
This course will study the nature of information warfare, including computer crime and information terrorism, as it relates to national, economic, organizational, and personal security. Students will gain an understanding of the threats to information resources, including military and economic espionage, communications eavesdropping, computer break-ins, denial-of-service, destruction and modification of data, distortion and fabrication of information, forgery, control and disruption of information flow, electronic bombs, and psyops and perception management. They will learn about countermeasures, including authentication, encryption, auditing, monitoring, intrusion detection, and firewalls, and the limitations of those countermeasures. They will learn about cyberspace law and law enforcement, information warfare and the military, and intelligence in the information age. Information warfare policy and ethical issues will be examined.
Course description
Professor Eric Burger
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