15th Jul 2009 - Introduction

Today is my first day study subject Information Technology Security. Our lecturer is Mr. Mohd Zaki bin Mas'ud. When Mr.Zaki comes in the class, he directly gives us a quiz. The quiz is about the general knowledge of the security. However, I just manage to answer 8 questions out of the 12 question. After quiz, he briefly tells us what we are going to learn in this semester. This subject covered 14 topics such as introduction to Information Security, introduction to cryptography, firewall and so on. Besides that, he also tell us about the important of the computer security. We study computer security because growing importance of the IT security and new career opportunities.

Mr. Zaki also taught us some new term such as cryptography, distributed denial of service (DDoS), CISSP, GIAC, CEH and ECSA. CISSP stand for Certified Information Systems Security Professional which is an independent information security certification governed by International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC). The CISSP examination covered variety of Information Security topics and candidattes have to answer 250 multiple choice questions in 6 hours.