Information Systems & Analytics @ Chatham: Session 5: Privacy & Security Issues

Learning Objectives

Describe the nature of IT network security and major types of security risks (e.g., DoS attacks)
Discuss the importance of a secure and reliable IT network for doing business
Identify key elements and issues in post-crisis communication by IT leadership
Discuss the importance of information privacy for doing business

A. Campus Class Meeting Agenda

Guest Speaker: TBD

B. EIA for the week (3 hours per session)

What's wrong with you pa$$w0rd? by CMU Professor Lorrie Cranor (17:41)
Microsoft's XBox hacked by a 5-year-old (10 minutes)
I Was a Cyberthreat to My Company. Are You? (20 minutes)
What exactly is encryption (Wall Street Journal)
The HeartBleed Bug (20 minutes)
Fired Bernie Sanders aide: I wasn't peeking at Clinton data files
Computer glitch allows 3,000 inmates early release in Washington state
5 most embarrassing software bugs in history
Defending Your Networks: Lessons from the Pentagon, featuring Admiral James Winnefeld, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Christopher Kirchhoff, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Professor David Upton of the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School (Harvard Business Review)
The Cybersecurity Challenge of the IoT, featuring Christopher J. Rezendes, president of INEX Advisors, and David Stephenson, author of SmartStuff: An Introduction to the Internet of Things (Harvard Business Review)
Executive summary available here
Edward Snowden at SXSW (1 hour)

Assignments Due Before Next Session Begins (12 hours of studies outside classroom)

To be completed BEFORE Quiz 5

To be completed BEFORE Virtual Case Discussion 5 and Individual Assignment 5

Information Systems & Analytics @ Chatham