Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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
      • security policies
      • terms
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)

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