Information Assurance

So Now What? A Career Path Discussion

June 26, 2010

Why You Want to Create a Career Path Everyone should have at least a rough outline for their career path. The last thing you want is to decide that you want to get into a field or specialty only to find that you haven’t prepared. For example, you don’t want to interview for a leadership [...]

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Norwich MSIA Papers Posted for Review

June 20, 2010

One of the things my fellow Norwich MSIA grads discussed during residency week was that we wished that we could review each other’s final papers. We all thought it would be very valuable because we learned so much from our classmates (cohort in Norwich terms) weekly postings, and thought we would learn even more from [...]

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Want Security Funding? First Learn the Business Language

January 10, 2010

The following article is one of my weekly papers for my MSIA degree at Norwich University. Funding Security Projects Getting Security Projects Funded in Small and Medium Businesses This report will examine the process an information technology (IT) employee working for small and medium business (SMB) might use to gain funding for security projects. This [...]

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Security Fundamentals for SMBs

September 19, 2009

All you have to do is look at the headlines of any tech magazine to see that large companies have trouble securing their networks, not to mention keeping them available. How much more difficult must it be for SMBs who have little to no IT staff, and the staff they do have is typically inexperienced, [...]

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The Future of Information Assurance Chapter 5

September 4, 2009

The following is the fifth and final excerpt from my Norwich MSIA Seminar 4 final paper, in which I speculate on how IA will evolve. I would love to hear what you think, so leave a comment and let me know how you think things will turn out. Computer Incident Response and Forensics Computer incidents [...]

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