Brian Michael Connelly

The fall of 2015 was another big semester for MIS2101.  As the course coordinator for MIS2101I took the lead on the implementation of a completely redesigned course (originally redesigned by Professor Steven […]

MIS3504 – As part of the program redesign in 2011, I worked with another faculty member to redesign MIS201, our systems analysis and design course and launched the new course as MIS3504 – Digital Design and Inn […]

As part of the 2011 program redesign, what was known as MIS120 was completely redesigned in the spring of 2011 and renamed MIS2501 – Enterprise IT Architecture.  The work done on this course has been recognized by […]

This was an extremely innovative course where students were assigned to one of three teams, the project management team, the functional team or the technical team, and worked as an organization would work in […]

In the spring of 2006 I develop and taught a new course for the graduate school that focused on business continuity planning, disaster recovery, and information security. After the events of 9/11 and recent […]

In the spring of 2006 the MIS department, with the support of the Fox School, initiated the Mobile Interactive Student (MIS) pilot.  As part of this pilot each student in MIS120 was issued a Pocket PC.  The d […]

This paper, co-authored with Amy Lavin, shared with the academic community our approach to teaching an intro MIS course using no textbook, a flipped classroom and activity based learning to transform a traditional […]

This paper, co-authored with James Moustafellos, shared with the academic community our use of studios and vertical studios in MIS education.  While studios and vertical studios are common in schools of Art and […]

This paper, co-authored with David Schuff, compared the then mainstream curriculum taught in MIS programs around the world with the MIS program taught at the Fox School which was radically redesigned in 2011 and […]

This paper described a technology project which I worked on with a high-performing undergraduate student where we utilized virtual machine technology to create a virtual network that was used to demonstrate […]

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“Ransomware, hospital hacking present growing cybersecurity threats”

Hackers crippled computer systems at a major hospital chain, MedStar Health Inc., one of the the largest health care providers in the Bal […]

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Aircrack-ng Suite should be used in a  Linux environment and not in a Windows OS since there is not much support for it. For someone who has not been previously exposed to this tool, the […]

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 is a set of media access control and physical layer for providing connectivity between wireless technology and wired […]

“Hacker’s Typo Tipped Off Authorities on Billion-Dollar Heist”
A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank […]

Since there’s no assigned readings (according to the syllabus), I thought I would share this interesting article:  “Office puts chips under staff’s skin”.

Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, are tr […]

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Burp Suite is a tool that allows security testing of Web applications. This framework is very powerful for if it is used properly, it identifies vulnerabilities and exploits them. This tool […]

“Keybase Releases Encrypted File-Sharin iPhone App”

Keybase last week announced the alpha release of the Keybase app for the iPhone with a cryptographically secure file mount. Users can write data in an […]