Every year or so I am lucky to be invited by Dr. Robert McCreight who teaches a graduate class on National Security and Technology to be a guest lecturer on Cybersecurity. Since the classes I teach at the University of Maryland and Syracuse University are on-line distance learning, it is always a treat for me [...]
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I am finishing up grading final papers for my Syracuse University class on security policy. Each semester I find I learn a great deal from reading the papers and interacting with the students about them. I have drawn three conclusions about policy creation from my past experience at the Department of Transportation, modified slightly from [...]
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Two events happened today that are at least in my mind related. First when I woke up I checked my emails for the two classes I am teaching through distance learning, at the University of Maryland University College, a capstone class for an IT Master’s program, and at Syracuse University, about Cyber-Security Policy. One of [...]
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I have been giving a lot of thought lately about the impact of technology being integrated into everything. In a separate post, I will talk more about that, but until I get that written, one of my students in my Syracuse University class on CIO on “CIO’s and the Global Enterprise”, wrote an interesting discussion [...]
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This coming Friday, April 16, the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University is hosting a conference to bring together CIO’s and Academic leaders to discuss some of the current issues facing IT. The conference welcome describes the nature of the conference pretty clearly: “Welcome to the first Upstate CIO Conference, where CIOs from Upstate New [...]
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