Information Assurance Homework 1: Topics of Interest and Security Violations, Assignments of Computer Science

Download Information Assurance Homework 1: Topics of Interest and Security Violations and more Assignments Computer Science in PDF only on Docsity! Name: Information Assurance: Homework 1 Due September 1, 2006 1. What do you hope to get out of this class? 2. What is your main area of interest in computer security? 3. What programming languages are you comfortable with? What operating systems are you comfortable working with? Name: 4. Consider the following topics. You have 8 positive marks and an optional 8 negative marks that you can apply to these topics. We will touch on most of these topics this semester. Your feedback will influence the degree we go into these topics this and future semesters. For example, if you are very interested in Information warfare and Disaster recovery, you may split your positive marks between these two. If Hardware Security does not interest you, you may apply your negative marks to this topic. You should apply all positive marks. You do not need to apply negative marks. a. Computer security and the law. b. Security and Ethics c. Cryptographic theory and algorithms d. Public Key Infrastructure and other network security protocols e. Information Warfare f. Computer Forensics g. System Evaluation and Accreditation h. Security System Development Processes i. Disaster Recovery j. Security of Critical Infrastructures such as Process Control or SCADA systems k. Ethical hacking and software vulnerabilities l. Hardware support for security m. Physical Security n. Emanations or TEMPEST security o. Database Security p. Other topics? Please note.