SI110 Course Information

• SI110 Course Policy
  Students are responsible for being thoroughly familiar with this document. It will have been reviewed by the instructor on the first day of class.
• SI110 Mission Statement
  Educate each midshipman about cyber infrastructure and systems, inherent cyber vulnerabilities and threats, and appropriate defensive security procedures, thereby enabling them to make principled decisions regarding the potential benefits, consequences, and risks from a proposed use of an information system in today's cyber warfare environment.
• SI110 Learning Objectives and Themes
  
  • Course Ojectives and Themes
  • The Cyber Battlefield
  • Models and Tools
  • Cyber Operations
• SI110 Course Goals
  The fundamental goal of SI110 is that students aquire:
  
  • an in principle understanding of the basic physical and virtual architecture of cyberspace, including: the individual computer and program, the physical components and protocols of a network and the Internet, and the distributed client-server system that is the world wide web,
  • hands on experience with basic components of the physical and virtual architecture of cyberspace and the ability to relate that experience to the larger system,
  • an in principle understanding of DoD's pillars of Information Assurance (availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation), the inherent vulnerabilities of information systems that endanger these properties, defensive measures to ensure that information systems retain these properties, and offensive measures that can be used to violate these pillars, and
  • hands on experience with some basic defensive and offensive practices in cyberspace, and the ability to relate that experience to new or more sophisticated attacks and defenses.
• A history of SI110
  SI110 is a new plebe-year core course. It is not very often that such a fundamental change in the USNA curriculum occurs, so it is important to understand how it came about, and to see how much time, effort and care went into the decision to introduce this course.
• SI110 Acknowledgements
  Many people had a hand in bringing SI110 to the USNA curriculum. This link acknowledges many of the people that were an important part of this effort. We apologize for anyone we've missed.
• If you have questions about the SI110 Curriculum, contact Chris Brown, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, USNA at wcbrown@usna.edu.