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CIOI - Information Assurance

Information Assurance (IA) concerns information operations that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and nonrepudiation. This includes providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities (National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Instruction (NSTISSI) No. 4009, January 1999). This course is divided in the following components – Federal Laws, Regulations, and Guidance; Information Risk and Survivability for Executives; Attack Methodologies and Predictive Analysis; Anatomy of a Hack; Economics of Information Security; and Legal and Technical Issues.

Participants will:

  • Learn laws, regulations and guidance related to information assurance.
  • Evaluate information risk and survivability methods.
  • Learn about different attack methods and predictive analysis techniques.
  • Gain an increased understanding and awareness of the makeup of a hacker.
  • Learn strategies for developing and measuring the economics of information security solutions.
  • Examine the legal and technical issues faced by organizations and citizens.

Clinger-Cohen Core Competencies Addressed:

  • Information Security/Information Assurance (IA)

Course Schedule

View a complete schedule of upcoming CIOI courses.

Register

Register online or call Barbara Pacella of the CIO Institute at (412) 268-4656.