Computer Security Literacy

About the Authors

Douglas Jacobson is a university professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He is currently the director the Iowa State University Information Assurance Center, which has been recognized by the National Security Agency as a charter Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance Education. Dr. Jacobson teaches network security and information warfare and has written a textbook on network security. Dr. Jacobson’s current funded research is targeted at developing robust countermeasures for network-based security exploits and large-scale attack simulation environments; he is the director of the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) test bed project. ...