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\emph{Computer Science CS 4/57205 Information Security}\\
Call Numbers 12367 and 12379\\
\textbf{SYLLABUS}\\
Spring 2015
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\item[Time and Place:]
Monday, Wednesday, 2:15-3:30 108 Smith Hall
\item[Instructor:]
Michael Rothstein, 268 MSB, phone 330-672-9065.
Email addresses: 
rothstei at cs.kent.edu or mrothste at kent.edu ;
please do not send mail to both at once; I'll simply get it twice and think it
is spam!  (Substitute @ for `` at '').
\item[Web address:]
\htmladdnormallink{http://www.cs.kent.edu/\TLD rothstei}
{http://www.cs.kent.edu/~rothstei}
\item[Office Hours:] 
Monday, Wednesday 11:00-12:00 and 3:45-5:00 PM\\
Also, you can always send email with questions and/or to
set up an appointment. Usual turnaround will be a few
hours during the day. Email use is to be preferred over voicemail, which will
not be checked as often.
\item[Textbook:]
Stallings, William and Brown, Lawrie, \emph{Computer Security : Principles and
Practice\/} 3d ed. Pearson Education Inc. (publishing as Prentice Hall), 2015,
ISBN 978-0-13-377392-7
\item[Goal of the course]
This course is an overview of some of the issues surrounding information
security; we will look at basic concepts, threats, protection mechanisms, and
the design and administration of secure systems.
\item[Material to be covered]
Time permitting, we will cover most chapters in the book except for chapters 10,
11, 20, 21.
\item[Prerequisite:]
  CS 33001, CS II
\item[Ethical issues:]
Ethical issues used to be prerequisite of this course; it no longer is;
however, taking or attending this course includes a heavy responsibility;
issues and techniques will be covered which can do a lot of damage; bad use of
these techniques may have very serious consequences; for example, 
promising students who have misused hacking techniques have been, not only
expelled from the University, but also forbidden from setting foot on
University Grounds; nobody takes this abuse lightly.
\item[Attendance policy]
I will not take attendance in this class; however, I will periodically 
take pop quizzes on material that should be fresh on your minds to make sure
it is being understood correctly.

Notwithstanding the above, if you are absent, there may be material created,
either spontaneously or in response to questions, and covered in the
classroom; often there will not be any written notes of this material, so it
might be a good idea to team up with somebody who keeps good notes to make sure
you have all the material covered. Some of this material may show up in an exam.

Read the text. You are fully responsible for the whole content of the text
with exceptions noted. The class will
mostly cover material in the same order as the text book, there may be
exceptions however. It is the student's responsibility to maintain an
awareness of the material in the text that is currently being covered. Ask 
around if you are unsure of the text material currently being covered.

The syllabus may be changed during the semester if necesary: changes will be 
announced in class; they will also show up on the instructor's website.

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\item[Class disruptions]
This is a large class, so disruptions should be kept to a minimum; these
include (in increasing order of seriousness):
\begin{enumerate}
\item Early departure (if announced and done discreetly: please sit near the
  door so that as few people as possible notice.)
\item Late arrival
\item Use of electronic devices or other devices which may interfere with
  your or other student's participation. Laptops are acceptable for taking
  notes, however, please sit in the last row of the room so that your screen
  does not distract/block other students.
\item Conversation among students.
\item Aiding and/or abetting these or any other student's disruptive behaviors.
\end{enumerate}
Guidelines pertaining to class disruptions are outlined in  Chapter 4 of the
\htmladdnormallink{University Policy Register}
{http://www.kent.edu/policyreg/chap4/index.cfm} in section 4 - 02.2.

%In summary, serious violators will be subject to:
%\begin{enumerate}
%\item Instructions to cease and desist, usually indicated by class being
%  stopped.
%\item A request for the offender(s) to withdraw from the classroom.
%\item If that fails, Campus Police will be called in.
%\end{enumerate}
%In all cases, the matter will be referred to University Authorities.
%\item[Lab:] This course has a mandatory lab associated with it.
%  \emph{Lab attendance is required.}The lab has a different instructor and
%  details on how the lab is conducted will be given in the lab meetings. The
%  lab instructor gives the lab scores to the lecture instructor. You must pass
%  both the lab and the lecture part of the course to pass the course.
%
%  The lab grade is worth 30\% of the total grade
\item[Grading:]
Your grade will be based on a midterm, one final, assorted assigned
exercises, a project grade, 
and a ``class participation grade'', based on the number of relevant
questions and comments: specially good questions or catching
my mistakes get extra points.
The weights are:\\
\begin{tabular}{lr}
Pop quizzes and class participation & 10\% \\
Midterm (March 4) & 20\% \\
Final (12:45-3:00, May 7) & 30\%\\
Project (TBA) & 20\%\\
Exercises & 20\%
\end{tabular}

The final will be comprehensive.

The midterm and final will be closed book; however, a small (like 20 sheets)
amount of paper will be allowed for consultation.
%Notice that the material in the Graduate Student's presentations can also be
%tested in the final.

%The presentation topic has to be chosen by March 21; failure to do so will
%be an automatic F in the course; note also that the drop date is March 22.

\item[Test make-up policy:]
I will need signed
documentation to verify {\em each} individual absence in order to
provide make-ups; only university accepted reasons will be honored.
%\item[Averaging algorithm:]
%The three tests will be worth 20\%, 30\% and 40\% respectively.
%The exercises are (collectively) worth 10\% of the grade.
%%Each test will be worth 20\%, and the final will be worth 40\%.
\item[Grading scale:]
%(I usually give a grading scale which is quite rigorous: if it is
%in place from the beginning, there is little room for complaint:
%in addition, I DO NOT follow it: I actually use something more like:
%\par
%\begin{tabular}{cl}
%92-100 & for an A\\
%84-91 & for a B\\
%76-83 & for a C\\
%68-75 & for a D
%\end{tabular}
%\par
%or sometimes even lower: a lot depends on the severity of the tests
%and final and your gut feelings. In order to allay their feelings about
%arbitrariness, I fill this space in as follows:)
%\par
I will assign number grades during the session
and only convert them to letter grades when I turn them in at the end
of the session. No decision can be made regarding a conversion table 
until the very last minute due to such imponderables as test difficulty, class
attendance and participation, etc. which will influence the grade. However,
I guarantee the following, worst case, table:
\par
\begin{tabular}{cl}
97-100 & will convert into an A\\  %93
94-96 & will convert into at least an A-\\  %90
91-93 & will convert into at least a B+\\   %87
88-90 & will convert into at least a B\\    %83
85-87 & will convert into at least a B-\\   %80
82-84 & will convert into at least a C+\\   %77
79-81 & will convert into at least a C\\    %73
76-78 & will convert into at least a C-\\   %70
73-75 & will convert into at least a D+\\   %67
66-72 & will convert into at least a D      %60
\end{tabular}
\item[Special accommodations for Students with Disabilities:]
University 
policy 3342-3-01.3 requires that students with disabilities be
provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access to course
content. If you have a documented disability and require accommodations, please
contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements
for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must first verify your
eligibility for these through Student Accessibility Services (contact
330-672-3391 or visit:\\
\htmladdnormallink{http://www.kent.edu/sas}
{http://www.kent.edu/sas}
for more information on registration
procedures). 
\item[Registration Requirement:] The official registration deadline for
this course is January 25, 2015.
University policy requires all students to be officially
registered in each class they are attending. Students who are not officially
registered for a course by published deadlines should not be attending classes
and will not receive credit or a grade for the course. Each student must
confirm enrollment by checking his/her class schedule (using Student Tools in
FlashFast) prior to the deadline indicated. Registration errors must be
corrected prior to the deadline.

The last day to withdraw is March 22, 2015.
\item[On cheating, plagiarism and other unethical behavior]
You are encouraged to discuss class problems with other students
but required to work independently of anybody else
except the  instructors and/or tutor, unless otherwise indicated.
%All work for this class should be done individually.
%In the case of homework, the only cooperation implicitly allowed is that
%students may discuss between themselves the broad outline of the work.
Copying other people's work, allowing your work to be copied (even
inadvertently!) and plagiarizing work will not be tolerated and
will be dealt with according to University regulations. For more information,
see \htmladdnormallink{the University policy statement on cheating}
{http://www.kent.edu/academics/resources/plagiarism/}

Notes:
\begin{enumerate}
\item By default, the penalty for cheating in this course is an ``F'' in the course.
\item University regulations require me to notify Student Conduct in case of violations.
\item Cooperation is just as bad as the deed itself: so, deciding
which of two is the original is a non-issue: both are equally guilty.
\end{enumerate}
%{\em Digest of Rules and Regulations}, available through:\\
%\htmladdnormallink{http://www.kent.edu/policyreg/chap3/3-01-8.cfm}
%{http://www.kent.edu/policyreg/chap3/3-01-8.cfm}

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