COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course intends to introduce students to the study of the technical, formal and informal controls to provide systems security and information privacy for organizations. The course among others will include security analysis of technology and organizational systems for information assurance. The course will provide students with an in-depth understanding of technical and managerial issues of information security and privacy. The course achieves this by discussing foundational aspects of a wide spectrum of activities, methods, methodologies, procedures and best practices used in information security and privacy field.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze
the impact of systems security and
information privacy for organizations
- Understand the broad role of information
security and information privacy in business processes.
- Understand the technical foundations for
information security and information privacy.
- Study
the implications for information security and privacy in Enterprise Information
Systems and Inter-Organizational business processes.
- Describe legal and public relations
implications of security and privacy issues
COURSE CONTENT
- Introduction
to the course Information System Security and Privacy: nature and scope.
- History
of Information Security and Privacy Information and Data Privacy Security of
Technical Systems in Organizations Issues in Information Security Issues in
Information Privacy.
- Internet
Communications and TCP/IP Network Security, Firewalls and VPNs .
- Information
System Risk Management Threats and Attacks
- Cryptography
and Encryption.
- The
art and science of Hacking.
- Intrusion
Detection and Prevention Systems.
- Identity
Management.
- Information
and data Privacy.
- Security
and Privacy of Formal Systems in Organizations Planning for Information System
Security and Privacy Designing Information System Security and Privacy
Corporate Governance for IS Security and Privacy
COMPULSORY READING MATERIALS
- Jeffrey
A. H . Modern Database Management (12th Edition)
- David, K & Michael, G.S .Fundamentals Of Information Systems Security
(Information Systems Security & Assurance Series) (1st Edition)
- Sean-Philip & Oriyano Michael GreggHacker. Techniques, Tools, And Incident Handling (Jones
& Bartlett Learning Information Systems Security & Assurance Series) 1st Edition
- Darril Gibson. Managing Risk In Information Systems (Information
Systems Security & Assurance Series) 1st
Edition