Course Support Materials
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.
Project Support: This document describes support available to instructors for assigning projects to students.
Computer Security: Principles and Practice by William Stallings and Lawrie Brown (Prentice Hall, 2008). This textbook places greater emphasis on computer security issues as opposed to cryptography and network security issues. For instructors and students, there is a technical resource and course page to supplement the book.
Computer Science Student Resource Site: Help and advice for the long-suffering, overworked student.
List of References: A list of all the references from the book.
Errata sheet: Latest list of errors, updated at most monthly. File name is Errata-NetSec4e-mmyy. If you spot any errors, please report them to me (click on “contact me” at bottom of page).
PowerPoint Slides The "official" set of slides commissioned for use specifically with this book. These slides were developed by Dr. Lawrie Brown at the Australian Defence Force Academy, University College, UNSW. This is a partial set. The full set is at the Prentice Hall Instructor Resource Center for this book.
Figures: On-line transparency masters of the figures from the book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.This is a partial set. The full set is at the Prentice Hall Instructor Resource Center for this book.
Tables: On-line transparency masters of all the tables from the book in PDF format.This is a partial set. The full set is at the Prentice Hall Instructor Resource Center for this book.
PowerPoint Slides: Another set of slides prepared for use with this book by Henric Johnson at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Laboratory Exercises on Encryption: Two lab exercises on public-key encryption and key sharing, prepared by Prof. James Benham of Montclair State U.
A Discussion of Textbook Cost Myths: From the Text and Academic Authors Association.NOTICE: No password is required for any downloads. Downloading sometimes fails, either because your browser mistakenly assumes a password is needed or for other reasons. If so, try using another browser or an FTP package. If that doesn't work, there might be a problem at your end or at your ISP, perhaps a firewall issue. Then you would need to talk to a system manager on your end.
Mailing ListA 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-netsec-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-netsec-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com. To post a message, send to ws-netsec@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.
Network Security CoursesInstructors might find these web sites for courses taught using this book useful. I would appreciate hearing about web sites for other courses.
Network Security. National Taipei U. of Technology. Lab assignments.
CS4525-01 Principles of Network Security. California State University, East Bay. Includes video lectures that can be downloaded to iPod or iPhone. 
CS 686-01 Special Topics in Computer Science: Privacy and Security. University of San Francisco.
ECE 6612 Computer Network Security. Georgia Tech. Quizzes and a variety of useful information.
CS 678 Data Security. Long Island U. Lecture notes.
COM 260 Computer and Network Security. St. Joseph's College.. Slides and other useful material
CSC290A Network Security. Hofstra U. Slides and other useful material
CS 437/537 Computer Network Security. U. of Alabama at Birmingham. Includes security projects for students.
CSCI 5931 Research Topic: Network Security. U. of Houston. PPT slides and handouts