Information Assurance

Catalog description

This course covers both the principles and practice of information assurance. The topics include law and ethics of information security, intrusion detection, firewall & trusted computing, trust management, authentication & biometrics, authorization and access control, web security, web service security, privacy issues, principles & practices of IT auditing, information systems security professional certification (CISSP). The basic issues to be addressed by information assurance are explored through a tutorial and survey of law and ethics at the very beginning of the course. Then, the detailed practice of information assurance is explored via practical aspects as well as applications that have been used and implemented nowadays.