The Information Institute, a professional development resource at UT Austin’s School of Information with courses in a wide range of information topics, is offering two half-day courses in February:

·         IT Security Metrics: Building a Program, Making it Work, Feb 9th

This half-day course provides basic training in measuring the effectiveness of your IT security program. IT Security Metrics offers an introduction to the field of security measurement and teaches skills and techniques for applying metrics to a security program. If you are responsible for IT security within your organization and looking for ways to collect better data, show better results, and demonstrate real business value for your activities, this course will give you the tools you need to do it.

·         Crowdsourcing and Crowd Computing, Feb 16th

This half-day course explains fundamental concepts of crowdsourcing and crowd computing and shows how to implement them in your work. The course highlights "killer applications" that employ new information systems and use crowd participation. You'll receive practical "how to" guidance for getting started using commercial crowdsourcing platforms, particularly Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and learn the capabilities and limitations of current methods and state-of-the-art techniques.

Upcoming courses include:

·         Putting Data to Work in Your Organization, Mar 13-15, May 15-17

·         Doing Business with Open Source, April 19-21

For more information, please access our website at infoinstitute.utexas.edu or contact us at [log in to unmask].