CHAPTER 75

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE EDUCATION IN INFORMATION ASSURANCE

Vic Maconachy and Seymour Bosworth

75.1 INTRODUCTION

75.2 U.S. INITIATIVES IN TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF INFORMATION

75.2.1 TIE System

75.2.2 Growth of IA Education Programs in the United States

75.2.3 Information Assurance as Part of a Learning Continuum

75.2.4 Time to Respond

75.3 DISTANCE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

75.3.1 Media

75.3.2 Students

75.3.3 Teachers

75.3.4 Providers

75.3.5 Courses

75.3.6 Summary

75.4 BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT

75.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS

75.6 NOTES

75.1 INTRODUCTION.

Information assurance has come to the forefront of the consciousness of the modern world. Recent events such as high-publicity breaches of security, as well as pervasive small-scale abuses of the technologies available at work and at home, have highlighted the need for trained professionals able to operate in the complex world of information assurance. Toward this end, recent initiatives in the United States and Europe have added information assurance into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum of more common degrees such as computer science, and have also identified information assurance as its own discipline worthy of its own curriculum. This chapter outlines some of the initiatives that have taken place in the United States and speculates about the future of the discipline.

75.2 U.S. INITIATIVES IN TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF INFORMATION ASSURANCE

75.2.1 TIE System.

Any approach to information assurance (IA) ...

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