Advanced Information Security

Catalog description

This course examines the concepts, principles, and applications of computer security in the business environment including Privacy, Information Security, and Critical Infrastructure. This course explores the knowledge and skills needed to ensure security of information and information systems within organizations. It focuses on concepts and methods associated with security across several systems platforms, including internal and Internet-based systems. The course utilizes a world view to examine critical infrastructure concepts as well as techniques for assessing risk associated with accidental and intentional breaches of security in a global network. It introduces the associated issues of ethical uses of information and of privacy considerations.