INFOSEC YEAR IN REVIEW 2003 as of 2004-10-31 M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP
[email protected] Assoc. Prof. Information Assurance Program Director, MSc and BSc in Information Assurance http://www3.norwich.edu/msia http://www2.norwich.edu/mkabay/bsia Division of Business Management Norwich University Copyright © 2004 M. E. Kabay. All rights reserved. Page 1 IYIR 2003 01 Introduction Category 01 Introduction 2004-06-15 Introduction M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP WELCOME Welcome to the 2004 edition of the Information Security Year in Review (IYIR) project. In 1993 and 1994, I was an adjunct professor in the Institute for Government Informatics Professionals in Ottawa, Canada under the aegis of the University of Ottawa. I taught a one-semester course introducting information security to government personnel and enjoyed the experience immensely. Many of the chapters of my 1996 textbook, _The NCSA Guide to Enterprise Security_ published by McGraw-Hill were field-tested by my students. In 1995, I was asked if I could run a seminar for graduates of my courses to bring them up to date on developments across the entire field of information security. Our course had twenty students and I so enjoyed it that I continued to develop the material and teach the course with the NCSA (National Computer Security Association; later called ICSA and then eventually renamed TruSecure Corporation, its current name) all over the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. After a few years of working on this project, it became obvious that saving abstracts in a WordPerfect file was not going to cut it as an orderly method for organizing the increasing mass of information that I was encountering in my research.