My name is Josh Mullis, and I am currently a 4th year student at the University of Georgia in the Terry School of Business. I am working on my Management Information Systems (MIS) major and minors in Computer Science and Portuguese. This might seem like an odd combination, but I have had an interest in Brazil for quite some time, and my plan is to work in the field of IT security consulting after graduation.
This fact that I have planned to work in this type of field has led me to take a slightly more technical route than most of my peers in the MIS department. To this end I have studied programming a little more in depth, and it is also why I am undertaking this directed study. The general theme of the study is the CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), but what I really want out of this course is a general understanding of current IT security issues and best practices for dealing with them. I will be working my way through the CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide by Shon Harris. I will be further discuss the book in my next blog. I have an internship lined up with PWC in Atlanta this coming summer with their Security group, and I am hoping to be able to come in with, at the minimum, basic knowledge of terms and ideas. If, in the process of studying for this course, I can obtain a good grasp of the material, I might even try to sit for the certification at the end of the semester. Either way, it should be a good experience, and I look forward to seeing how this study goes.
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