General Course Information and Materials

Fall 2023

Classes

Initial Course Information
Course Meeting Place Textbooks and Materials Additional Resources Notes
CYIS 3600: Secure Systems Analysis and Design In-Person and Fully Synchronous Online M. Melone. Designing Secure Systems. CRC Press, 2021. isbn: 9781003144182. (Look for the rental option on the page.)
J.S. Valacich and J.F. George. Modern Systems Analysis and Design. Pearson, 2020. isbn: 9780135172759. (Look for the rental option on the page.)

Students will need MS Access, Project, and Visio, as well as Windows. Students only need VMWare if their main OS is not Windows.

CYIS 3900: Secure Web Applications and Technologies In-Person and Fully Synchronous Online M. Baker. Secure Web Application Development: A Hands-On Guide with Python and Django. Apress, 2022. isbn: 9781484285954
M. McDonald. Web Security for Developers: Real Threats, Practical Defense. No Starch Press, 2020. isbn: 9781593279943.
(Optional) V. Li. Bug Bounty Bootcamp: The Guide to Finding and Reporting Web Vulnerabilities. No Starch Press, 2021. isbn: 9781718501553.
(Optional) C.J. Ball. Hacking APIs: Breaking Web Application Programming Inter- faces. No Starch Press, 2022. isbn: 9781718502451.

Students will need multiple software packages to run and install various technologies and tools. These listed here are only starting points.

For GitHub use FirstName.[MiddleInitial].LastName@wmich.edu to use the student package.

CYIS 6710: Information Assurance and Security In-Person and Asynchronous Online L. Brotherston and A. Berlin. Defensive Security Handbook: Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure. O’Reilly Media, 2017. isbn: 9781491960332.
M.E. Whitman and H.J. Mattord. Principles of Incident Response and Disaster Recovery. Cengage Learning, 2021. isbn: 9780357508442.

Students will need VMWare and Security Onion. We will cover the Security Onion install in class.

CIS 6660: Information Security Operations Management In-Person and Asynchronous Online R. Boyle and R.R. Panko. Corporate Computer Security. 5th. Pearson, 2021. isbn: 9780135823248.
InfoSec Learning (Use WMU Email for Registration)

All specialized software will be used within the simulation environments.

Office Hours

Fall 2023
Office Hours: R 1100-1300 hrs.
Phone Hours: M-F 1400-1730 hrs.
By Appointment
Optional WebEx Office Hours
Scheduled as Needed
Microsoft Teams
WebEx