Information Assurance

Catalog description

This course focuses on the principles, theory and terminology of Information Assurance. Students will study the principles of vulnerabilities, risk management, countermeasures, operational security and disaster planning. The course will also introduce common threats, tools and practices used by hackers to attack an organization's information infrastructure. Students will discuss the process of encryption and define the key cryptography terms and examine the difference between asymmetric and symmetric encryption. Special emphasis is placed on the use and understanding of scanning and exploit tools.