BHI 554 - Information Assurance

Catalog Year 2014-2015

The need for information security policies, standards, and procedures will be studied. This course focuses on the formulation of an effective and implementable security policy. It also acquaints students with many issues involved with privacy and security policies as outlined by various national and international governmental and industrial bodies. Topics include: Trust models, Security policy design and incident response, Security policy monitoring and auditing, Cyber-security, Tools and techniques to defend against, react to, and recover from a cyber-attack, Economics of cybercrime, Security and privacy policies, Compliance, and Legal issues.

PREREQ: Graduate standing or instructor permission
credit: 3