Instructor Resources
Computer Security: Principles and Practice

Last updated: Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Course Support Materials

Project Support: This document describes support available to instructors for assigning projects to students.
Solutions manual and project manual: Available at Prentice Hall Website for this book. Go here for Prentice Hall instructor support Websites for my other books.
Cryptography and Network Security. Fifth Edition by William Stallings (Prentice Hall, 2010). This textbook places greater emphasis on cryptography and network security issues as opposed to computer security issues. For instructors and students, there is a technical resource and course page to supplement the book.
PowerPoint Slides: The "official" set of slides developed for use specifically with this book. Developed by co-author Lawrie Brown.
Figures: On-line transparency masters of the figures from the book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format
Tables: On-line transparency masters of all the tables from the book in PDF format. To be added soon
Errata sheet: Latest list of errors, updated at most monthly. File name is Errata-CompSec1e-mmyy. If you spot any errors, please report them to .
Computer Science Student Resource Site: Help and advice for the long-suffering, overworked student.
A Discussion of Textbook Cost Myths: From the Text and Academic Authors Association.

Mailing List

A moderated mailing list has been set up so that instructors using this book can exchange information, suggestions, and questions with each other and with the author. To subscribe, send a blank email to ws-compsec-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. You will receive a confirmation message. Just reply to this message and your subscription will be complete. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to ws-compsec-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com . To post a message, send to ws-compsec@yahoogroups.com. Note: You should receive a reply to your subscription request in a few hours, asking for confirmation. If not, try again. The confirmation email asks you to confirm either by replying to the email or by going to a web link. The web link is more reliable. If you reply by email and do not receive a subsequent email confirming your subscription, try again.

Computer Security Courses

Instructors might find these web sites for courses taught using this book useful. We would appreciate hearing about web sites for other courses.
IT 4823 – Information Security Administration Southern Polytechnic State U., includes podcasts, sample exams.
01:198:419:01: Computer Security Rutgers.
CS 460 Computer & Network Security U. of Mount Union.
EECS710: Information Security and Assurance U. of Kansas.
CSPP56510 – Information Technology Security: U. of Chicago. Contains useful links.
CMPSC 443 Introduction to Computer Security: Penn State U.
ISA 562 Information Security Theory and Practice: George Mason U.