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    Module 2 – Case
    BELIEF & CULTURE: BUILD AWARENESS
    Case Assignment
    To know about a field and keep abreast with what happens especially a field that changes and advances fast it is important to know the Who’s Who in the field. Bruce Schneier is a top information security technologist and author and has been named by The Economist as security guru (seehttp://www.schneier.com). It will be worthwhile for you to visit his website on a frequent basis in you want to pursue a Chief Security Office career.
    The following multi-media presentation delivers what Schneier’s view on information security management. If you have bandwidth issue and can’t watch the video then you can hear his speech from the audio stream. In the presentation Schneier suggests a framework of feeling reality and model and explains how these three should be in sync. He also emphasizes how the feeling of security plays a role and how important a person’s cognitive perception (partially coming from the person’s belief and culture) is.
    Bruce Schneier discusses on Ted Talks the Security Mirage October 2010 athttps://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_schneier.
    If you can’t watch the video or hear the audio then you must read the following article which covers the topic. Otherwise you should still scan through the article to refresh what you heard and grasp some new concepts that didn’t get explained in-depth in the presentation:
    Schneier B. (2008). The Psychology of Security.http://www.schneier.com/essay-155.html.
    Another Who’s Who in the security field is Mark Seiden (a Cutter Consortium consultant 35 yrs of programming experience on the technical advisory board of Counterpane among top 50 CyperElite). Please listen to his speech where Mark emphasized the need to build proper organizational and customer awareness of security needs.
    Seiden M.Speech.
    There are many factors influencing one’s belief. Culture is one factor upbringing is another one. So is a person’s education and exposure on the subject. I can’t affect your culture or upbringing but I would like to educate/expose to you some concepts that can influence what you think regarding to security. Remember I am only scratching the surface here. You need to continue educate yourself and build awareness of security for yourself and your organization.
    Mercuri Rebecca T.; Neumann Peter G. (2003) Security by obscurity. Communications of the ACM 46 (11)160-160. (TUI library).
    Hoepman Jaap-Henk; Jacobs Bart. (2007) Increased security through open source. Communications of the ACM 50(1) 79-83. (TUI library).
    Now it is time to write about what you learned in the background readings. Writing about what you learned is like digesting food. Only through your own language you can truly assimilate and absorb.
    After you have strategically read the above materials and more importantly thought about them critically and inter-connectively compose a 4- to 6-page paper on the topic:
    Why is it important to build one’s awareness and proper perception of information security? And how does one build such awareness/proper perception in the management of an organization?
    In preparing your paper you need to discuss the following issues and support with arguments and evidence:
    Assignment Expectations
    Length:Minimum 46 pages excluding cover page and references (since a page is about 300 words this is approximately 12001800 words).
    Your assignment will be evaluated based on the Rubric.

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