ISA 562 Information Security Theory & Practice

Fall 2008

This page will be updated frequently!

Professor Duminda Wijesekera

Fall 2008, Monday 7:20pm - 10:00pm, STII 9

Instructor:	Dr. Duminda Wijesekera
Email:	dwijesek@gmu.edu (please include "isa562" in your subject line)
Office:	S&T-II Room 351
Office phone:	(703) 993-1578
Office hours:  TA: Office: Office hours:	Monday 5:00-6:00PM Tuesday 7:30-8:00PM Min Xu  mxu@gmu.edu(please include "isa562" in your subject line) STII, Room 468 Monday 4:00-6:00PM Venkatesh Laxminarayanan  vlaxmina@gmu.edu STII, Room 330 Friday 4:00-5:00PM (Mainly regarding Homework)
Webpage:	http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~duminda/classes/fall08/isa562/

News!
08/24/2008	Class Website up!
09/16/2008	Additional TA Help!
09/22/2008	TA’s office hour is cancelled today. Any questions please send email.
09/27/2008	AC3 and AC4 slides are updated.
09/28/2008	AC5 slides are updated.
10/01/2008	HW3 and sample midterm are posted!
10/07/2008	HW1 and HW2 are ready to pick up in front of Dr. Wijesekera’s office!
10/21/2008	HW3 due day has been postponed to Oct.27.
11/03/2008	HW4 is posted!
11/12/2008	Exam2 will be held on Nov. 24. The note is here.

Course Description

This course is a broad introduction to the theory and practice of Information Security. It serves as the first security course for the MS-ISA degree and is required as a pre-requisite for all subsequent ISA courses (at the 600 and 700 levels). It also serves as an entry level course available to non-ISA students, including MS-CS, MS-ISE and MS-SWE students.

Course Prerequisite

INFS 501 or equivalent

INFS 515 or equivalent

INFS 590 or equivalent

SWE 510 or equivalent

Or permission of instructor

Textbook and Readings

Required: Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK

Computer Security: Art and Science by Matt Bishop. Addison-Wesley Pub Co; 1st edition (December 2, 2002) ISBN: 0201440997

Grading

Assignments	40%
2 Midterms	40%
Final	20%

The Midterms and Final are closed book.

All assignments must be done individually by each student, unless explicitly required otherwise.

The final grades are computed according to the following rules:

Class Schedule (will be updated frequently)

Academic Integrity

All students are required to follow all university, school and department policies regarding academic integrity. Violator of the Honor Code will result in a grade of F for the course, as well as any penalties imposed by the university and/or the ISE department.