SI110--Introduction of Cyber Security Technical Foundations

This web site is for Prof Guth's sections (3005 and 6006). Key links for students

SI110 Course Website covers course wide material.
Public SI100 Course website--use this if you are off the yard.
Prof Guth's in-class message board. We will use this for passing information during class.
Adobe Connect for EI and review sessions.
PPT presentations--mostly just pretty pictures, and listing of the key points for each lesson
Vigenere cipher frequency analysis attack

SI110 Survey: Six multiple-choice questions

Online SOF: CS Department Student Opinion Form for Instructor and Course

FOR SI110 Survey: Students are automatically assigned a random ID for the survey, but they should enter their instructor's last name into the form, so I can verify for each section that they've taken the survey.

BEFORE SOFs: The section leader must give each student a unique 2-digit number. They can count off, or use whatever system they want to do this.

FOR SOF: Choose your section number and instructor. Use the 2-digit number given to you by your section leader as your "password". new

Final exam

Review session 1: Center for Cyber Security Studies , RI102, Tues May 8, 0830-1200
Review session 2: Center for Cyber Security Studies , RI102, Tues May 8, 1330-1630
Review session 2: Professor Guth, CH087 (computer lab), Tues May 8, 1330-1630
Review session 3: Course Coordinate, RI102, Tues May,
Wed evening 9 May, 1930
- Section 3005, RI209
- Section 6006, RI210

Professor Guth additions to course policy statement:

Calculators will not be allowed on the exams.
Homework
- Homework is due at the start of the period following assignment. Unless you are on emergency leave or medically incapacitated, you are to insure it is turned in on time even if you will miss class. You can either have a classmate turn it in for you, or scan it and email it.
- You will stop working on the homework when I take the report from the section leader. Continuing to work on it after that point will result in a grade of 0 and treatment of your actions as cheating.
- You will generally grade homework at the start of the period, using red pens that I will provide. In addition to marking any wrong answers, you are free to make any notes you want. My students last semester found the homework review very helpful, and some of the best students made notes for later study even on questions they got right.
- Even if you did not do the homework, you will turn in a blank assignment with your name. If I do not have a homework assignment, you are unprepared for class and may be marked absent.

Computer Suggestions: These are recommendations, and there are caveats which mean that you can safely ignore them sometimes (or even most of the time), but at some point in this course they will bite you on the fourth point on contact if you are not careful.

Setting up Windows

Show file extensions

Show the complete path in the explorer bar

Show hidden files (may be less necessary in Windows 7)

Setting up Browser

Always ask where to save downloads (then organize them on your hard disk as you download)

File names

Never uses spaces or other "exotic" characters

Stick with letters, numerals, and the underscore "_"

Put your name in the file and of any file you will send to others (especially a superior like me)

For HTML files, use full HTML extension and not HTM abbreviation

Count on file names being case sensitive (especially when going on the web)

Be careful in saving to desktop or My Documents since those have spaces in the path (may be less necessary in Windows 7, but in XP this could choke some software)

Classroom links Instructor Home

Prof Guth's home page

Last Update: 1/10/2012