Syllabi
Below are links to syllabi for different courses that could be taught using Security in Computing, 3rd edition. Different syllabi are offered for different kinds of courses for specific departments or student mixes.
- Standard Computer Security Course. The standard course is a one-semester course in a computer science program, covering most of the material in the book. We also provide notes for covering the material in a two-semester course.
- Management Track Security Course. For students with more of a management interest and less of an interest in the technical details, we suggest a slight reordering that focuses on controls as tools to be used in a coherent, balanced protection strategy.
- Network Security. The third syllabus is appropriate for students whose imagination is captured by the current interest in network (Internet) security. For these students, we turn the curriculum inside out: The book intentionally progresses from simple (individual programs) through more complex (operating systems) to even more complex (networks of operating systems). But it is possible to restructure the course using networks as the organizing principle. Then the instructor works backward through the material, with network threats motivating a need for identification and authentication, web site defacements supporting a study of program flaws and weaknesses in the programming process, integrity threats leading to cryptographic tools against modification, and network privacy linking to security in databases. So, for this course, instead of reading the chapters front to back, the student reads a piece of Chapter 7 and then goes from that to a relevant earlier chapter.
Outside readings and class assignments are suggested with the first course description. The other course descriptions contain only the topic order and correlation to course week. The courses are structured around a typical 15-week semester.
For your convenience, you can also download the syllabi (zipped Word document, 24 kb).
Professors can also obtain the associated Security in Computing, 3/e Instructor's Manual from their Prentice Hall sales representative.
