Mr Jason Howarth 
BInfoTech (Hons) CSturt
Course Coordinator for IT Industry Masters
Office Location
Room: 311
Building: 01
Consultation Times: to be advised
Mailing Address
School of Computing and Mathematics
Locked Bag 588
Wagga Wagga NSW 2678
Australia
Telephone: +61 2 6933 2374
Fax: +61 2 6933 2080
Email: jhowarth@csu.edu.au
Brief Biography
Jason Howarth has a degree in Information Technology from CSU, where he graduated with the University Medal. Since then, he has been a lecturer in the School of Information Studies at CSU, and more recently, in the School of Computing and Mathematics on the Wagga Wagga campus.
Jason completed his Honour’s degree with research into the debugging of distributed systems written in Java. His other research interests include information security, cryptography and computer viruses.
Jason teaches a broad range of subjects within the School of Computing and Mathematics, including network security, C# programming, and IT risk management.
Research Focus
Distributed programming
Cryptography
Information security
Enforcement of security policy
Teaching Responsibilities
ITC593 |
Network Security |
Trimester 1 |
ITC596 |
IT Risk Management |
Trimester 1 |
| ITC519 | Web Information systems | Trimester 2 |
| ITC593 | Network Security | Trimester 2 |
| ITC518 | Principles of Programming using C# | Trimester 3 |
| ITC543 | Enterprise Design Patterns | Trimester 3 |
| ITC595 | Information Security | Trimester 3 |
Administrative Responsibilities
Course Co-ordinator, IT Industry Masters
Selected Publications
Howarth, J. , Messing, J., & Altas, I. (2004). Delivering online examinations: A case study.
Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 5(3).
Altas, I. , Messing, J., & Howarth, J. (2006). I haven’t done maths for 20 years. How can I learn it now? Proceedings of the 3 rd International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics at Undergraduate Level, Istanbul , Turkey .
Roy , P., Altas, I. , & Howarth, J. (2006). An implementation of a Remote Virtual Network
Laboratory for Education Purposes. Proceedings of the 7 th International Conference on
Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, 162-167.
Lang, T., Howarth, J., & Altas, I. (2006). Uni-Access: A secure location aware communication
system providing user privacy. Conference Proceedings on Communications and Networking in China, ChinaCom 2006
Buckley D., Altas I. , & Howarth, J. (2007). A real-time intrusion detection system for the Windows environment. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW / Internet , 2 , 84-88.
Howarth, J. & Stow , E. (2007) A post-mortem Javaspaces debugger. Proceedings of the ECC 2007 (in press).
Messing, J., Altas, I. , & Howarth, J. (2007) Partners in learning in Australian schools. Conference Proceedings ICL 2007, Kassel University Press .
White, P., Altas, I. , Howarth, J., & Weckert J. (2007). An internal enterprise framework for identity based management. APAC 07 (in press).
Woodhouse, S., Howarth, J., & Tien, D. (2007). A management approach to securing geospatial information systems. Paper presented at the ICITA 2007 IEEE 4th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, Heilongjiang University , Harbin China , 15th - 18th January 2007.
Research Project Supervision
Information security, cryptography, security policy, programming
Current Research Students
Steven Woodhouse, Doctor of Information Technology, “Protecting our critical assets: A management approach to information security”
Peter White, Doctor of Information Technology, “Whose identity is it? The control and management of information by the use of identity”
Paul Nevin, Doctor of Information Technology, “Efficiencies in data mining algorithms for high network volume intrusion detection”