* Mich Kabay introduces his new Web site, security resources
It’s been a while since I wrote about my Web site, so today I’m updating readers about new materials that may be useful to you.
I’ve moved my Web site off the Norwich University server because of space limitations and the limitations of the virtual private network software we are required to use to update our files. My new site resides on the InMotion Hosting server, which charged $7.95 a month for a one-year subscription and provided free domain registration.
Using the FileZilla free FTP client, I was able to upload 9 GB of materials easily over my DSL link. FileZilla also provides options allowing for easy updating of any files that change on my local source cache on disk.
So what’s new?
Readers who are familiar with my old site will recognize the hideous yellow background (which I call Pickett Slide-Rule Yellow – see “On a Life of Teaching” for an explanation) and the canonical list of sections on the left of every index page.
Looking at the home page, you will see a CURRENT COURSE LINK for CJ341, the Cyberlaw and Cybercrime course Dr. Peter Stephenson and Prof. Julie Tower-Pierce and I have taught for several years. Julie is away in Washington, D.C., with her husband this year, so Peter and I have been updating the lecture files ourselves. We have new material, updated references and statistics, and lots of new images to enliven the lectures. There are also pointers to updated and new reference material that may interest readers. The PPT links are in Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 format and the PDF lecture files are six-per-page handouts for our students to use in class.
I’ve updated my notes “On Writing” and hope that anyone who has to do a lot of expository or technical writing can benefit from the pointers; some readers may want to provide the link to their children in high school or college.
There’s a charming animated film called “Warriors of the Internet” by Gunilla Elam, Tomas Stephanson, and Niklas Hanberger that explains fundamentals of TCP/IP in 12 minutes. I recently used this to great effect to provide background information for new members of the Security & Forensics Club at Norwich University.
There are some nice USPIS security awareness videos available for download; they can be helpful in security-awareness sessions in corporate and educational milieus.
Other updates are listed on the home page, but I want to draw readers’ attention to a specific section: my MSIA materials. I have significantly updated and reorganized this page and hope that readers will find the narrated lectures particularly useful. The main topics are organizational psychology, management skills, leadership skills, introduction to cyberlaw, and a number of other topics that you may be able to use in your internal training and awareness programs:
• Introduction to cryptology
• Physical & facilities security
• Identification & authentication
• Applied ethics
• Managing employment, hiring & firing
• E-mail and internet use policies
• Auditing information security
I hope readers will wander around my site exploring the files. Please help me out by pointing out broken links and other errors. I have run the Xenu link checker on my site and have quite a list of broken links already, but it always helps to have independent minds looking for places to improve.
