CyberSecurity/NSF Resource Guide

Page Contents:

Library Catalog
Databases and Journals
Government Information
Government Sites
Open CourseWare
Professional Organizations
Stimulating Speakers (TED Talks)
TEL Tutor
(Training on the Tennessee Electronic Library) *NEW*
Web Resources (Articles, Blogs,
Information and Training Sites)
Other Libraries

Topics:

College and Career Success *NEW*

Fountainhead Library Catalog of Print and Media Resources

Databases and Journals

*NEW* AMSER Applied Math and Science Education Repository. Information and Security Technologies. 500+ articles on this topical area.
ARXIV (ar-kive) Open access to more than 700,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
Directory of Open Access Journals Computer Science Journals (over 300)
Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review
Mitre.org Technical Papers Archives (1997-2011; numerous articles, diverse topics; no search software)
Tennessee Electronic Library. Find the TEL password here. TEL Tutor.

** Asterisks stand beside primary recommendations.
Others are recommended depending on research topic.

Multi-Subject Databases

Academic OneFile**
Expanded Academic ASAP**
General OneFile

Subject-Oriented Databases

Criminal Justice Collection**
Diversity Studies Collection
Military & Intelligence Collection**
Psychology Collection
Vocations, Careers, & Technical Education Collection

Reference Databases Most multi-subject databases also include reference materials.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
General Reference Center Gold

News Databases (For a fuller discussion of how to find newspapers etc., see News Access.)

InfoTrac Newsstand
National Newspaper Index

Government Resources

Articles

"Cybercrime statistics wildly inaccurate, says researcher." Cormac Herley of Microsoft Research. Homeland Security Newswire. 29 June 2011.

Data and Reference Information

Cyber Crime Statistics. Bureau of Justice
Electronic Crime Information. National Institute of Justice. Select "Electronic Crime" from the list of topics.
Investigate Cyber Crime. FBI.
Federal (Cybercrime) Law Enforcement Contacts

Security Training

Information Assurance Support Environment (IASE) IASE Education and Training Courses Training is available online and via media.

Government Sites

Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, Department of Justice (News,Reports, Cases, Policy, Evidence, Legal).
Computer Emergency Readiness Team
Cyber Security, Department of Homeland Security
Defense Information Systems Agency
Defense Personnel Security Research Center (PERSEREC)
National Initiative for CyberSecurity Education (NICE)

Open CourseWare (OCW)

Open CourseWare Consortium Home Page. OCW Consortium offers a single-site access window into courseware uploaded from very many institutions of higher education, including some very high-quality ones, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Univeristy of Michigan, and University of California-Irvine.

OCW COURSE LISTING BREAKDOWNS. Numbers listed below are the approximate (~) number of courses in English, from all institutions, discovered by search on the quoted term, June 25, 2012. The site can be searched by any word or phrase; and additional paths of discovery are available also.

     OCW: "Computer Network" ~70
     OCW: "National Security" ~15
     OCW: "Network Security" ~15

Web Resources

Articles Online

Mandiant Mandiant in the News M-unition Blog A company which presents news and blog articles with archives.

Single Articles:

"Cybercrime statistics expose five industries most susceptible to phishing attacks." PRNewswire. 23 May 2011.
"Howard Schmidt." Wikipedia article about the Obama Administration's Cyber-Security Coordinator.
Coakley, Chris, Jay Freeman, and Robert Dick. "Next-Generation Protection Against Reverse Engineering." Anacapa Sciences. Feb. 4, 2005. White paper.

Blogs

Microsoft Security Blog

Information Sites

Cyber Crime Statistics (Internet Crime Compliant Center [IC3]

Mandiant Mandiant in the News M-unition Blog A company which presents news and blog articles with archives.

Magazines

The Ethical Hacker Network
The Hacker News (THN) Magazine Free and monthly since April 2011. Issues must be downloaded, and there is no table of contents.

Security Training

Counter Hacker Challenges (Excercises, Stories)
VTE.Cert.org

Stimulating Speakers (TED Talks)

Behind the Great Firewall of China: Internet Censorship, 2009-2012

See also the TED Talks speakers listed on the Computer Technologies and Electronics page.