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Recommended Citation: Elder, K L, D D Strouble, and D Bouvin. Information Assurance Education and the IS Curriculum. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2004, v 21 (Newport): §2444. ISSN: 1542-7382. (A later version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 3(41). ISSN: 1545-679X.)

Information Assurance Education and the IS Curriculum

Refereed

8 pages

Kevin Lee Elder    [a1] [a2]
Graduate School of Engineering & Management
Air Force Institute of Technology    [u1] [u2]
Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA    [c1] [c2]

D. Dennis Strouble    [a1] [a2]
Graduate School of Engineering & Management
Air Force Institute of Technology    [u1] [u2]
Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA    [c1] [c2]

Dave Bouvin    [a1] [a2]
Air Force Institute of Technology    [u1] [u2]
Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA    [c1] [c2]

In this paper we will summarize the recent efforts of the Graduate Information Resource Management (IRM) program at the Air Force Institute of Technology to offer a specialization/track in Information Assurance to our students taught from an IRM perspective. This program is built off of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) 4012 Certification for Information Assurance. The NSA has identified sixty Centers of Excellence in Information Assurance Education. The majority of the Centers are primarily housed in Computer Science Departments or the courses offered are primarily taught by Computer Science Faculty (45 out of 60). By mapping our curriculum to the certification requirements for the NSA 4012 and mapping those to the knowledge clusters within the course’s learning objectives using the Maconachy Model we believe we have an interesting and robust Information Assurance Curriculum that others may want to compare to and investigate.

Keywords: information assurance, education, curriculum, NSA, 4012

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