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Educating Leaders in Information Assurance
"... Information assurance is a new and rapidly evolving field. The best way to prepare professionals for the information age in light of the increasing security threat is not clear. We are attempting to educate future leaders in information assurance at the undergraduate level. At this level, we found t ..."
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Information assurance is a new and rapidly evolving field. The best way to prepare professionals for the information age in light of the increasing security threat is not clear. We are attempting to educate future leaders in information assurance at the undergraduate level. At this level, we found two distinct types of students and determined that we can only meet their needs with separate courses. We developed a course for non-technical majors that focuses on strategy and policy but with a strong technical component. The course for computer science majors is heavily technical, but does not neglect the strategy, policy, ethics and laws of information warfare. In both courses we have relied heavily on active-learning activities, reducing the content, and focusing on teaching the students how to teach themselves. Each course culminated in a major project that required the students to demonstrate mastery of the course objectives. We were extremely successful in accomplishing the course goals and believe that these courses can be models for information assurance education at other undergraduate institutions.

