Herding Cats: How to Launch a Cyber Security Club in an Academic Setting

Herding Cats to Infinity

This paper outlines and contextualises some current findings of an on-going investigation begun in 2009 at the Visual Effects Research Lab (VERL). The three-year project links the worlds of film, art, technology and computer science. In sharing methodologies and promoting cross-, transand inter-disciplinary understanding the project is beginning to challenge established notions of visual though...

Herding Cats

Cyber Warriors for Cyber Security and Information Assurance- An Academic Perspective

A virtualized and virtual approach is presented on academically preparing students to successfully engage at a strategic perspective to understand those concerns and measures that are both structured and not structured in the area of cyber security and information assurance. The Master of Science in Cyber Security and Information Assurance (MSCSIA) is a professional degree for those who endeavo...

Herding Cats: Managing a Mobile UNIX Platform

Laptops running UNIX operating systems are gaining market share. This leads to more sysadmins being asked to support these systems. This paper describes the major technical decisions reached to facilitate the pilot roll out of a mobile Mac OS X platform. We explain which choices we made and why. We also list the main problems we encountered and how they were tackled. We show why in the environm...

How to run an effective journal club: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND Health-based journal clubs have been in place for over 100 years. Participants meet regularly to critique research articles, to improve their understanding of research design, statistics and critical appraisal. However, there is no standard process of conducting an effective journal club. We conducted a systematic literature review to identify core processes of a successful health jo...