Maryland Alliance for Information Security Assurance

Events

MAISA (The Maryland Alliance for Information Security Assurance) would like to invite you to two new faculty development activities. First is a three-day workshop on identity and identity theft, and the second is our first MAISA Educators Forum, featuring Robert Seacord from the CERT/Coordination Center at the Software Engineering Institute, and author of the book “Secure Coding in C and C++”.

Identity Management – What you should know about Privacy?

This workshop provides an introduction into privacy and identity management. Participants will learn about methods attackers use to obtain private information, and will cover spam, key loggers, email scams, identity theft, legislation, phishing, and biometrics,

Speaker: Lynn Ray, Chief Security Officer, Towson University
Location: Towson University, Cook Library, Room 404B
Dates: January 11, 18, and 25.
Time: 9:30am-4:00 pm. Lunch will be provided.
On-Line: In a first for our MAISA workshops, participants who are unable to attend the workshop in person will still be able to participate, as the entire workshop will be broadcast live on-line, through the Towson University Digital Media Classroom. On-line participants will be able to interact with the class through a chat client. Recordings of the workshop will also be made available. A Blackboard Course site is under development, and will be made available to participants.

MASIA Educators Forum
“What is the Right Way to Teach Software Security?”

This forum will present differing views on the methods of teaching software security, and through both large group format and small group discussion, provide the participant with alternative methods of security instruction, and allow for group development of novel ways of presenting security issues in a meaningful way.

Lead Speaker: Robert Seacord, CERT/Coordination Center at the Software Engineering Institute
Contributing Speakers: AL Holt, DoD; Casey O’Brien, CCBC; Jidé Odubiyi, SEGMA LLC; Dale Schnepf Howard CC; Blair Taylor, Towson University,
Location: 7800 York Road Room 205
Date: Thursday, January 17.
Time: 9:30 am- 4:00 pm. Lunch will be provided.

Division of Economic and Community Outreach
Maryland Alliance for Information Security Assurance
Office Location: 7801 York Road, Suite 260

Phone: 410-704-4909
Fax: 410-704-4908
E-mail: moleary@towson.edu