Information Assurance for Cybersecurity (CS 465)

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will:

  1. Recognize the general purpose and goals of the online course
  2. Explain the need and role of information assurance (IA) in corporate and national security
  3. Discern the threats, vulnerabilities, and risks that an information system is exposed to
  4. Analyze the Information assurance needs of an organization
  5. Identify models to express the IA needs of an organization
  6. Identify measures to express the efficacy of an information system’s assurance capability
  7. Identify privacy and security regulations of a given organization
  8. Discern the legal, ethical, and social implications of an organization’s IA strategies
  9. Identify and analyze potential vulnerabilities in a system
  10. Explain techniques for detecting intrusions (internal or external)
  11. Identify techniques for a system to survive any potential attacks
  12. Match IA needs of an organization with the available technologies