The standard for papers in the graduate program is the APA style. All participants in this course and all graduate INSS, MGMT, PUAD, and ECON courses should have a copy of the style guide:

American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition. Washington DC: Author.

Publications of the various professional societies (such as ACM -- the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Computing Society, and the various management professional societies) are strongly recommended.  In addition, there are many trade journals (such as eWEEK) that MIS professionals should become familiar with, many of these being published both weekly and on-line.

At the conclusion of this course the student will be able to:
1. Identify the resources of an information system that must be protected
2. Distinguish information security from operations and physical security
3. List potential security threats, vulnerabilities and risks of information systems, particularly on the network
4. Define and discuss the role of cryptography
5. Evaluate various data encryption methods
6. Identify various control mechanisms used to prevent, detect and correct error in an information system
7. Define the responsibilities of Security Administrators
8. Be able to develop a disaster recovery plan for an information system
9. Develop standards, guidelines and procedures to implement security policy in an information system

Grades for this course will be assigned as follows:

    A     92%

    B     80 – 91%

    C     70 – 79%

    F     Below 70%

Please note that Bowie State University does not use "D" for graduate students. The grade F(a) is used to designate academic failure. F(n) is used to designate failure for non-completion.  Grades of Incomplete or Withdrawal are governed by UMUC-Europe policies. For further details, please refer to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog, available in your local Education Center or online at http://www.ed.umuc.edu/general_info/publications/catalogs.

Graduate school at the masters level focuses on helping students obtain the education needed for success as professionals in their chosen fields. Thus, UMUC-Europe Graduate Programs and Bowie State University share the common goals of promoting excellence in academic scholarship through thoughtful inquiry and the skillful application of knowledge and theory for the betterment of society.

In order to maximize your graduate educational experience in general and this course in particular, you are required to:

Participate in classroom discussions

25% - Complete graduate level projects or programming assignments, write graduate level papers

15% - Mini cases

20% - Midterm

40% - Final

Participate in classroom discussions: You are expected to come to class prepared to engage in all discussions in a professional and informed manner. Usually this requires two to three hours for every hour of a face-to-face class and approximately ten hours of preparation per week for a DE class.

Complete graduate level projects or programming assignments, write graduate level papers or case studies:  You are required to conduct professional-level research, including appropriately citing works of others and avoiding plagiarism. Resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC, UMUC-Europe or BSU), partially or in its entirety, is not acceptable in this course and will result in an automatic failure on the assignment.

Orally/visually present prepared material: You are required to present your results in a professional manner. In a face-to-face course, this typically means an oral presentation accompanied by appropriate visual material. In a DE class, this means creating a visual/textual presentation for your instructor and classmates.

Complete one or more written examination(s): The examination process in this class will assist you in developing the writing and critical thinking skills necessary for successfully passing the comprehensive exam required of all graduate students. The examination questions used for this course will either be taken directly from past comprehensive exams or written as though to be included on a comprehensive exam.

This schedule presents 16 units or modules, with each unit corresponding to a regular three-hour weekday meeting, a half-day on weekends, or a full week of DE.

Initial meeting:

      Introductions

      Review of syllabus

      Clarification of goals, objectives and requirements

      Orientation to subject

      Introduction to Information Security       Chapter 1

Second meeting:

      The Need for Security       Chapter 2

Third meeting:

      Legal,Ethical,and Professional Issues in Information Security
      Chapter 3

Fourth meeting:

      Risk Management       Chapter 4 

Fifth meeting:

      Planning for security       Chapter 5

Sixth meeting:

      Firewalls and VPNs       Chapter 6

Seventh meeting:

      Intrusion Detection, Access Control, and Other Security Tools
      Chapter 7

Eighth meeting:

      Cryptography       Chapter 8

Ninth meeting:

      MIDTERM

Tenth meeting:

      Physical Security Chapter 9

Eleventh meeting:

      Implementing Information Security       Chapter 10

Twelfth meeting:

      Security and Personel       Chapter 11

Thirteenth meeting:

      Information Security Maintenance       Chapter 12

Fourteenth meeting:

      Review

Fifteenth meeting:

          Examination

          Student presentations

Sixteenth meeting:

          Student presentations

          Course evaluations

The University has a license agreement with Turnitin.com, a service that helps prevent plagiarism from internet resources. I may be using this service in this class by either requiring students to submit their papers electronically to Turnitin.com or by submitting questionable text on behalf of a student. If you or I submit part or all of your paper, it will be stored by Turnitin.com in their database throughout the term of the University's contract with Turnitin.com. If you object to this temporary storage of your paper, you must let me know no later than two weeks after the start of this class. Please Note: If you object to the storage of your paper on Turnitin.com, I may utilize other services to check your work for plagiarism

Manfred Trostmann
earned his Diploma in Electrical Communication from the Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University and in Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences at Cologne.

After working for DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION (DEC) and Mobil Oil he managed the computer center of the University of Frankfurt and built the network for the university.

He has been teaching for University of Maryland for some 20 years and belongs to the graduate faculty where he teaches several classes in the MIS program in Germany.