About the Course

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This course introduces you to the various technical and management aspects of information security (InfoSec) and provides you with an understanding of the key issues associated with protecting information assets, determining the levels of protection and response to security incidents, and designing a consistent, reasonable information security system, with appropriate intrusion detection and reporting features.

It covers the human, organizational, technical, legal, ethical, and social issues involved in the protection of information systems. You will obtain a basic understanding of the various attacks on and threats to systems, as well as the defense mechanisms to fend them off. You may use this course as the beginning point in preparing yourself to become an IS security professional with business savvy.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course you should be able to...

• Describe the important human, organization, technological, legal, and ethical issues that are involved in protecting information systems.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders of an organization in regard to protection of its information systems.
• Identify the most common security models, information security criteria, system vulnerabilities, types of attacks and threats, and countermeasures and security controls.
• Describe in detail the most effective and widely used technologies to protect information systems and discuss the pros and cons of using each technology.
• Implement basic configuration of and troubleshoot some of the most essential technologies to protect an information system.
• Identify the most popular resources that IS security professionals use to collect and exchange information and to obtain tools to protect information systems.
• Present to others your opinions on the trends and new developments in both sides of the IS security war.

About the Instructor

Andy Wu, Ph.D., Security+, MCSE, CNA is an assistant professor in the ITDS Department at University of North Texas. He obtained his Ph.D. and Master's degree in MIS from the University of Central Florida. Before he attended UCF, Andy was a network administrator. Andy's research interests include information security and social networking. With a minor in computer science, he also has taken coursework in computer forensics and software engineering. Andy is a member of Computer Security Institute (CSI), Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the honor societies of Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi.