Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will:
- Recognize the general purpose and goals of the online course
- Explain the need and role of information assurance (IA) in corporate and national security
- Discern the threats, vulnerabilities, and risks that an information system is exposed to
- Analyze the Information assurance needs of an organization
- Identify models to express the IA needs of an organization
- Identify measures to express the efficacy of an information system’s assurance capability
- Identify privacy and security regulations of a given organization
- Discern the legal, ethical, and social implications of an organization’s IA strategies
- Identify and analyze potential vulnerabilities in a system
- Explain techniques for detecting intrusions (internal or external)
- Identify techniques for a system to survive any potential attacks
- Match IA needs of an organization with the available technologies