week01
Welcome to COMP6841
Come up and ask me questions for 5 mins
Good faith policy
We expect a high standard of professionalism from you at all times while you are taking any of our courses. We expect all students to act in good faith at all times
TLDR: Don’t be a jerk
sec.edu.au/good-faith-policy
Whoami
- Jesse Merhi (Like that herb + “he”)
- Product Security @ Atlassian
- Been working here for almost 2 years!
In saying that..
- If any of you want some advice regarding career things. Consider this tut an opportunity to chat to someone who is in the industry and has some insight!
I really dont wanna talk, but we need to do some Housekeeping
places for course discussion
- Webcms! We have a forum too - (R.I.P. Open Learning)
- SecSoc Discord - Ad-hoc and general chatting
> whoareu
- Your name, degree, year?
- Why’d you do the course?
Questions
- Attendance
- 80% Attendence is Compulsory for Tutorials and Lectures.
- Are they recorded? No :( - sadly this is pretty hard.
- Where are these resources? jmerhi.mov/6843/weekX
Course content
- 40% - Exam -> We Have to do this…
- 30% - Portfolio -> This is your opportunity to LEARN
- If you wanna change it up a bit… let me know ;)
- Start early.
- 30% - Project - Something Awesome
- This got me my job :)
- Dont underestimate the things you do at uni.
GPT
- I Love AI… like alot.
- I would never use it for a course like this -> Its just a waste.
- Honestly just send me your input to ChatGPT instead.
- Its super obvious.
What happened in the lecture?
- Make sure to ask “What is a JWT?” in the next lecture.

Case Study Time
- The goal is for me to talk about 10% of the time. Prepare yourselves.
- This is about thinking.
- Please talk or this doesnt work <3 no one here bites… (No promises)
Things to think about
Thing 1
What happens after a natural disaster?Thing 2
- Lawlessness
- Sanitisation
- Sewerage
- Food
- WaterThing 3
Is the Tsunami actually going to get here? No.