Information Assurance and Security

INFORMATION ASSURANCE (IA)

• Encompasses scientific, technical and management disciplines required to ensure information security and quality
• Scientific techniques as well as organization, operation management and policy, legality, all play important roles.
• Information quality also contributes to the overall information assurance of the information systems and networks
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NATIONAL INFORMATION ASSURANCE PROGRAM

• NATIONAL Centers of Academic Excellence Information Assurance
• NSA, Decision Directive 63, National Policy on Critical Infrastructure Protection , May 1998
• NSA and DHS in support of the President's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, Feb 2003
• The goal of the program is to reduce vulnerabilities in or national information infrastructure by promotion higher education in I
  
• ASU has been certified
• CAEIAE
• Prerequisite: Must be verified under the IA course ware CNSS training standards
• NSTISSI 4011: Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals
• CNSSI 4012: Senior Systems Managers
• CNSSI 4013: System Administrators (SA)
• CNSSI 4014: Information Systems Security Officers
• NSTISSI 4015: System Certifiers
• CNSSI 4016: Risk Analysts
• Additional standards are currently being developed
• Specifically, certification for standard 4011 is required, and certification of at least one of the CNSS Training Standards (4012, 4013, 4014, 4015, or subsequent standards) is required.

CAEIAE Evaluation Criteria

• Criteria 1: Partnerships in IA Education
• Criteria 2: IA Treated as a Multidisciplinary Science
• Criteria 3: University Encourages the Practice of IA
• Criteria 4: Academic Program Encourages Research in IA
• Criteria 5: IA Curriculum Reaches Beyond Geographic Borders
• Criteria 6: Faculty Active in IA Practice & Research & Contribute to IA Literature
• Criteria 7: State-of-the-Art IA Resources
• Criteria 8: Declared Concentrations
• Criteria 9: Declared Center of IA Education or Research
• Criteria 10: Full-time IA Faculty
  

Benefits from CAEIAE Program

• CAEIAEs receive formal recognition from the U.S. government, as well as opportunities for prestige and publicity, for their role in securing our nation's information systems
• Students attending CAEIAE schools are eligible to apply for scholarships and grants through
• The Department of Defense (DoD) Information Assurance Scholarship Program
• The Federal Cyber Service Scholarship for Service Program (SFS) operated by National Science Foundation (NSF)