ITAS 362 Introduction to Information Assurance and Information Security

This class provides students with an overview of network security principles and implementation techniques. Topics covered include authentication issues; examples of attacks and malicious code that may be used against networks, and the countermeasures against these; examples of perimeter and interior attacks; and protecting network services. Additional topics may include risk management and assessment, understanding and developing security policy, and  protective technologies, such as firewall, intrusion detection systems and the use of encryption.