1. Welcome to CSI-4118!

2. Happy Birthday, Internet! 35 years and 7 days ago, ARPANET, the Military's progenitor to the Internet, was first powered on ARPANET was used by the United States’ Department Of Defense to test the newest networking technologies, such as large-scale packet-switching

3. Population Explosion!!! In 2004, it is estimated that well over 800 Million people have access to the Internet

4. Those Way-Down Security Blues With so many people communicating back and forth, system security is more important than ever before It is estimated that PC Viruses cost businesses approximately $55 Billion in damages in 2003. Fortunately, successful attacks against corporate systems have been steadily decreasing since 2001

5. Even The Big Boys Make Mistakes Across all of its products, Microsoft released 51 security advisories in 2003. That represents an average of nearly one new security patch per week. 30 of the MS Security Bulletins released in 2003 affected Microsoft's Windows XP Operating System.