CS 465

Information Assurance for Cybersecurity

Met the following learning objectives:

• Can recognize the general purpose and goals of the online course
• Can explain the need and role of information assurance (IA) in corporate and national security
• Discerned the threats, vulnerabilities, and risks that an information system is exposed to
• Analyzed the Information assurance needs of an organization
• Identified models to express the IA needs of an organization
• Identified measures to express the efficacy of an information system’s assurance capability
• Identified privacy and security regulations of a given organization
• Discerned the legal, ethical, and social implications of an organization’s IA strategies
• Identified and analyze potential vulnerabilities in a system
• Explained techniques for detecting intrusions (internal or external)
• Identified techniques for a system to survive any potential attacks
• Matched IA needs of an organization with the available technologies

Coursework

Wrote information assurance policies and recommendations for hypothetical company, “ABC inc.”. ABC Inc. recently suffered from a ransomware attack I took on the role as the Chief Information Assurance Officer (CIAO) to create a set of information assurance (IA) policies and procedures to reduce the risk of company disruption and of internal proprietary information being compromised again. I was tasked with writing a report about what happened, some of the apparent consequences of the breach, and policies and procedures to be put in place to reduce the likelihood of future incidents.