Information Assurance I

Course Code: CITS-225

Department: Computer Info Tech

Credit Hours: 3.00

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Course will provide an overview of techniques for ensuring and managing information security. Topics include administrative and technical security controls to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from data asset violations; risk and vulnerability analysis to select security controls; security planning; security architecture; security evaluation and assessment; and legal, ethical, and privacy aspects of information assurance. Information security fundamentals, such as cryptography, authentication, and access control techniques, and their use in network, operating system, database, and application layers. Prerequisite: CITN 110