As most of you should be aware I spent last year back at university studying for a Master of Science degree in Information Security. I took the exams for that course in May of 2008, and have just this week received the grades for those courses. Here goes:
| Security Management | 71 |
| Introduction to Cryptography and Security Mechanisms | 92 |
| Network Security | 90 |
| Computer Security (Operating Systems) | 90 |
| Computer Crime | 72 |
| Smart Cards & Token Security and Applications | 80 |
Obviously I’m rather pleased with these grades. Security Management and Computer Crime were both essay exams, and it’s usually harder to get a very high grade in an essay exam, but I would have liked to have achieved an 80 (or higher!) in Computer Crime—I thought I nailed that one!
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