Sanjay Goel, School of Business, UAlbany

PH: (518) 442-4925
FX: (518) 442-2568
Email: goel@albany.edu

Business Administration 310b
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222

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Information Security in Systems and Networks

Primary Instructor (Contact)
Name: Sanjay Goel
Email: goel@albany.edu
Phone: (518) 442-4925
Office Location: BA 310b, University at Albany, SUNY

Guest Instructors
Damira Pon & Christopher Brown
Ph.D. Students
Information Science
College of Computing & Information

Class Information

Date: November 30th, 2006
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: University at Albany, Earth Science Building, Room ES-B19
Credit(s): Professional Development (Equivalent of 1 credit)
Website: http://www.albany.edu/~goel/classes/fall2006/pdp

Course Overview

The workshop provides an introduction to information security and familiarizes the students with threats to computer networks and data. It consists of several crisp modules that are 45 minutes to an hour on different topics. The course is focused on the fundamental basis for different attacks and the mechanisms to defend against those. This basic information will help the users better engage in managing security risks in their organization.

Learning Objectives

Students would become aware of the common information security threats
Students would learn techniques to protect information systems
Provide basic terminology to understand security literature (including policies)

Agenda

Time	Topic	Instructor
9:00-9:15am	Introductions and Overview
9:15-10:00am	Malicious Code & Software Vulnerability Download Malicious Code Slides Download Software Vulnerabilities Slides	Sanjay Goel
10:00-10:45am	Spoofing, Session Hijacking Download Spoofing Slides Download Network Intrusion Slides	Sanjay Goel
10:45-11:00am	Break
11:00-11:45am	Distributed Attacks (Botnets & Denial-of-Service) Download DOS Slides Download Botnet Slides	Sanjay Goel
11:45am-12:30pm	Encryption/VPN (No Slides Availble)	Sanjay Goel
N/A	Wireless Security Download Wireless Slides
N/A	Database Security Coming Soon!
12:30-1:45pm	Lunch
1:45-2:45pm	Password & Cyber Ethics Download Password & Cyber Ethics Slides	Damira Pon
2:45-3:00pm	Break
3:00-4:00pm	Privacy Download Privacy Slides	Christopher Brown
4:00-4:05pm	Summary