 Hello and welcome to MIS 324 Information Security and Assessment. My name is Adam Gawita and in this class what we're going to be focusing in on is a lot more of the information security side of information systems. We always have all these different computers and we have all these different programs running around. And the problem is we have to make sure that everything is secure. You know, your mom, your dad, or if we look at this from a company's perspective, we don't want to be vulnerable. We don't want someone being able to have access to our systems and stealing credit cards, personal information, passwords, things of that nature. So that's actually what we're going to be looking at in this class. One of the things we're going to need is we're going to need actually two books for this. This is a wonderful bundle from Cengage, Principles of Information Security, and the lab manual for the security plus guide of it. And one of the things that we're going to have going on in this class is we're actually going to be spending a lot of time in class doing the work. You see, this lab manual, this is going to give us pretty much the guide of how to make your computer secure. And then this Principles of Information Systems book, this is actually going to give us a lot more of the why, the how, kind of history lessons, if you will. It's kind of important because we never want to make our mistakes. So one of the things you happen to notice is there's a green screen going on behind me. One of the things I'm going to be doing is just in case you ever get stuck, you're hung up, and you don't really know what's going on, you can always go back to these videos of mine, and that's kind of where the green screen will come in and it'll kind of fade out. And you can always take a look and review the YouTube videos. So without further ado, welcome to MIS 324, and I'll see you in class.