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ACIS 4684/5584
IS Security and Assurance
Dr. Linda Wallace
 Office: Pamplin 3092
 E-mail: [email protected]
 http://www.acis.pamplin.vt.edu/faculty/wall
ace/5584
 Office Hours: MW 12:30 pm-1:30 pm, or
by appointment
 Office Phone: 231-6328
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Required Materials
 Principles of Information Security, 4th
edition, Whitman & Mattord, 2012
 Additional reading (see syllabus)
 All class notes, instructions, and
assignments can be downloaded and printed
from the class web page throughout the
semester.
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Prerequisites
 ACIS 4554 or BIT 4554
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Attendance Policies
 If you miss a class
 you are still responsible for turning assignments
in on time.
 you should contact one of your classmates
(NOT your professor) to find out what you
missed.
 See someone in Pamplin 1046 if you must
miss class for an extended period of time
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Grading:
Exams (2 @ 100 pts each)
Topic Debate
Semester Project
In the News
Case Summaries
CyberCIEGE
Total
See syllabus for grading scale.
200
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100
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10
40
400
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Exams
 No alternate exam times will be scheduled without prior
approval and valid documentation.
 Job interviews are not considered acceptable reasons for
missing an exam.
 Make arrangements with the companies you are interviewing for
other days
 A list of exam dates is shown on the class web page.
 If you are too ill to take an exam you must have a note
from the doctor explicitly stating that you are too ill to
attend classes.
 Exams are the property of the professor and should never
be removed from the classroom.
 If you are not currently registered in the class you cannot
take an exam.
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Topic Debates
 Teams of students will be assigned to
debate a topic in class
 Some groups will present the “pro” side of
the topic while others will present the “con”
side.
 The team will also prepare open ended
questions for the other team and the class
 Topics will be assigned the second week of
class.
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Semester Project
 Allow teams of students to become more
familiar with a security technology, service,
or threat by performing an in-depth research
on this technology or service and
demonstrating it in class.
 Deliverables: presentation and report
 Must include demonstration
 Must get topic approval from professor
 Must include References
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In the News Assignments
 Every student must present a recently
published article related to IS security or IS
assurance.
 Article must be no more than 10 days old
when submitted.
 E-mail the class list-serv with a link to the
article so that everyone in the class can read
it before your presentation.
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Cases
 2 Harvard cases; possibly1 KPMG case
 Prepare a case summary before class
 Case summaries should include
 a brief description of the case,
 identification of the major issue (s),
 and of the main lesson (s) learned from the case.
 Should be less than 1 page
 Do NOT e-mail summaries. You must submit
them in class. Bring 2 copies to class.
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CyberCiege
 4 multi-part campaigns
 For each campaign you need to turn in a one
page summary about what you had to do to
successfully complete each scenario
including a discussion of what did not work
and why.
 http://cisr.us/cyberciege/latestv.html
 Start early in case you have technical
difficulties!
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Grading:
 All grades will be posted through Scholar. If you
should notice an error in your grade, you should
submit the graded assignment to me with a note
indicating the error. This submission should be
made within two weeks of the grade being posted.
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Policies for assignments
 All assignments are due at the beginning of
class on the due date.
 Late assignments will not be accepted.
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Policies for assignments
 No “extra credit” assignments will be given.
Grades will be based on the grading criteria
established in the syllabus
 Do not make requests for policy exemptions in
front of other students (e.g. more time for an
assignment, rescheduling exams, being late to
class when an assignment is due, etc.). If you do,
they will be denied. If a matter is important
enough for you to ask for an exemption, then you
should contact me privately.
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VT Honor Code
The Honor Pledge - “I have neither given nor
received unauthorized assistance on this
assignment”
The Honor Code expressly forbids:
 Cheating , Plagiarism and Falsification
All assignments and exams are to be completed
individually unless specifically stated otherwise.
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Other Policies
 E-mails sent to me before 5pm (Monday through
Friday) will usually be answered by the end of the
same day.
 E-mails sent to me after 5pm (Monday through
Friday) or on the weekend will not necessarily be
answered the same day.
 I will schedule appointments with students outside
of my regularly scheduled office hours if they have
a conflict with my scheduled hours and if I am able
to be available. The more notice I have for an
appointment, the better the chance that I can be
available.
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Special Accommodations
 Students requiring special accommodations
throughout the semester (include during
tests) should notify the professor during
office hours of the first week of the
semester.
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Important Dates
2/29 - Exam 1
5/7 7:45-9:45am - Final Exam (4:00)
5/9 10:05am-12:05pm - Final Exam (2:30)
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