MGS 555LEC - Information Assurance

Management of Information Security challenges - Unauthorized access, information modification, denial of service, and viruses; Computer crime, cyberterrorism, and cyberwar ; Risk assessment, vulnerability and threat modeling and analyses ; return on security investment ; uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, risks of extreme event analysis ; fault tree analysis ; Computer Security measures - technological (physical access restraints, firewalls, encryption, and audit controls) and human approaches (legal, effective management, ethics), Computer security planning; Business Continuity Planning - Disaster recovery, Contingency Planning, Access Control; Diagnostics - Computer Forensics, Privacy Management and diagnostic tools; influence diagrams, failure analysis.

Credits: 3