This is the beginning course in "Computer Security".
This class meets on the following days in May and June 2025
May 27, 28; June 2, 3, 4, 9 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25.
Test are scheduled for June 4, 17, and 25.
Tests will begin at 10:00am on their respective dates.
The time from 9:00 to 10:00am may be used for lecture or review or for other activity yet to be decided.
Don't miss any test because I have no back up sets of questions to create a replacement test.
Tests are open notes, open book, open internet, open gpt, one pilot, gemeni, dixiland express, etc Under those conditions and considering no time spent on class projects, I am expecting to see many high scores from this class.
This short semester is your perfect class: you have nothing to do except learn security. You spend no time on programming, term papers, or projects. You have open notes from here to infinity. It is the perfect time to nail down an A+ grade.
Be aware of this danger: If your answer comes from an external source and it appeared in at least one lecture's slides, then you're good to go. If your external source provides an answer that appears nowhere in the Stalling chapters we cover in class, then you get a 0. The safe approach is to use only answer appearing the screen shots you make of lecture notes.
Download: 2025summer253syllabus.odt
Calendar:
May 27: Chapter 1 "Overfiew" and first half of Chapter 3.
May 28: Chapter 3 "User Authentication"
June 2: Kahoot game #1; Chapters 2 "Cryptography"
June 3: Chapter 6 "Malicious Software"
June 4: Midterm test #1 on Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 6
June 9: Chapters 16 "Physical Security" and 17 "Human Security"
June 10: Chapter 11 "Software Security" and 10 "Buffer Overflow"
June 11: Chapter 8 "Intrusion Detection"
June 16: Kahoot game #2; Chapter 19 "Legal Matters"
June 17: Midterm test #2 on Chapters 8, 10, 11, 16, 17, 19
June 18: Chapter 12
June 23: Chapter 14
June 25: Chapter 7
June 25: Test #3