William Slater's CIS 608 Blog: Post 001

Post 001 - CIS 608

Welcome, everyone!

This is my first Blog Post for CIS 608 – Information Security Management at Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska, and this is my Introductory Posting. Even though I have some kind of website since 1996 (i.e. see BILLSLATER.com which was started in 1997), I haven't kept a regular "BLOG" before so this is a first.

I have worked in Information Technology for a long time and wrote my first paper about Information Security, a treatise on the problems leading to and associated with unauthorized access and S.B. 215 back in November 1979. Since that time, my experience and awareness of the importance of Information Security led me to pursue both greater opportunities of increasing responsibility related to Information Security, as well as some of the best recognized certifications in the industry.

So now, I want the academic background to go with my experience, knowledge, and certifications, and as a result, I started in an M.S. in CyberSecurity program at Bellevue University this week on August 29, 2011. Even though I am presently also part of the adjunct faculty at the Illinois Institute of Technology School of Applied Technology teaching Data Center courses, in the future I also want to be in a position where I can train the Cyberwarriors of America's Future.

In this M.S. in Cybersecurity program, the faculty members require us to keep blog for each course, so I set up one for each course and set up a 13^th as a master blog to point to the others. Note the naming conventions I was able to set up.

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http://cybersecuritymsbellevue.blogspot.com - Master blog

http://cis608.blogspot.com - CIS 608 - Information Security Management

http://cybr515.blogspot.com - CYBR 515 - Security Architecture and Design

http://cybr510.blogspot.com - CYBR 510 - Physical, Operations, and Personnel Security

http://cis537-wfs.blogspot.com - CIS 537 - Introduction to Cyber Ethics

http://cis607.blogspot.com - CIS 607 - Computer Forensics

http://cybr520.blogspot.com - CYBR 520 - Human Aspects of Cybersecurity

http://cybr610.blogspot.com - CYBR 610 - Risk Management Studies

http://cybr615.blogspot.com - CYBR 615 - Cybersecurity Governance and Compliance

http://cybr625.blogspot.com - CYBR 625 - Business Continuity Planning and Recovery

http://det630.blogspot.com - DET 630 - Cyber Warfare & Deterrence

http://cybr525.blogspot.com - CYBR 525 - Ethical Hacking and Response

http://cybr650.blogspot.com - CYBR 650 - Current Trends in Cybersecurity

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A word to the wise: I discovered something interesting, if you attempt something like this and you are using Google's Blogger at http://www.blogspot.com, be sure and use something like Google Chrome as your browser. Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser DOES NOT play well with the content for Google's Blogger, and that's especially true for trying to copy and paste into the Google Blogger window.

Finally, to start this off, I will also share some more information about me:

Resume: http://billslater.com/wfs_resume.pdf

Career: http://billslater.com/career

Certifications: http://billslater.com/certifications

Credentials: http://on.fb.me/fW3wH0

ISO 27001: http://billslater.com/iso27001

M.S.: http://billlslater.com/uop

MBA: http://billslater.com/uopmba

Bio: http://billslater.com/bio

Writing: http://billslater.com/writing

Thoughts: http://billslater.com/thoughts

Secrets: http://billslater.com/secrets