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COURSE SYLLABUS:  Basic Information Assurance/Computer Security

Course Title:	HLS340 - Basic Information Assurance/Computer Security
Department:	Homeland Security
Instructor:	Ed Piper, MS, BA, AA - - Vita

Course Description:

This course will focus on digital crime and digital terrorism. It is intended to broaden horizons of the traditional criminal justice student and the computer science students. It has a special emphasis on Homeland Security.

Objectives:
1. The increase understanding of the computer as a target.
2. To develop an appreciation of the computer as an instrument of the crime.
3. To examine the computer as incidental to the crime.
4. To examine crimes associated with the problems of computers.

Required Texts –   Online Bookstore

Digital Crime and Digital Terrorism, by Robert Taylor, Tony Caeti, et al. Prentice Hall (Pearson), 2005/2006. ISBN-13: 9780131141377. ISBN: 0131141376

Assignments: Answer the assigned question each week. Email back to instructor at the end of the week. Value 10 points each for a total of 100 points. Write a 5 page paper on how to protect your school or organization from digital crime and digital terrorism. 20 points

Paper Guidelines: Paper should be double spaced, 12 font and follow a recognized writing style. Paper should be free of grammatical, spelling and typing errors. Paper should have at least five different references. Paper is due by the end of week six and should be emailed to the instructor.

Grades: 120 points available: 20 points for report. 10 points for answering each week’s questions - 100 possible points.

110-120 points	A
105-109 points	A-
100-104 points	B+
95-99 points	B
90-94 points	B-
85-89 points	C+
80-84 points	C
75-79 points	C-
70-74 points	D

WEEKLY READINGS AND ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS.

Please provide page numbers from text to support your answer of the question.

Week 1. Introduction overview of digital crime and digital terrorism. Chapter 1.

What are the four categories of computer crime? Provide examples of the types of crime of that fall under each category.

Week 2. Digital Terrorism. Chapter 2.

What are the six components of information warfare?

Week 3. Criminology of Computer Crime. Chapter 3 and Digital criminals and hackers Chapter 4.

Explain the difficulty of prosecuting true hackers.

Week 4. White-collar crime. Chapter 5.

Identify and describe similarities and differences between corporate espionage offenders who are insiders and those who are outsiders.

Week 5. Viruses and Malicious Code. Chapter 6. Exploitation, Stalking and Obscenity on the World Wide Web. Chapter 7.

What is a difference between a virus and other types of malicious code?

Week 6. Anarchy and Hate on the World Wide Web. Chapter 8.

What is the USA Patriot act and what are the four traditional tools and surveillance expand with the act?

Week 7. Controlling digital crime: legislation law enforcement investigations. Chapter 9.

What types of warrantless searches can be conducted by investigators collecting Digital evidence?

Week 8. Law enforcement roles and responses. Chapter 10. Investigation of computer related crimes. Chapter 11.

Explain how labor is divided among professionals involved in investigation of computer crime. Which role do you prefer and why?

Week 9. Digital forensics. Chapter 12.

Explain the process used to preserve verifiable integrity of Digital evidence

Week 10. Information security and infrastructure protection. Chapter 13.

What are the major principles of risk analysis? List the common steps in developing a risk analysis strategy


About Your Instructor: Ed Piper has over 30 years of diversified experience in intelligence, security, law enforcement, consulting, training and teaching. He is a instructor with the MSIA program at Norwich University.