Towards information assurance (IA) curricular guidelines

Abstract

Information assurance and information security are serious worldwide concerns. Computer security is one of three new focal areas of ACM/IEEE's Computer Science Curriculum update in 2008. This ACM/IEEE report describes, as first of its three recent trends, the emergence of security as a major area of concern. [3]The purpose of this working group report is to continue work of 2009 working group on information assurance (IA) education. The focus of 2010 working group is to examine curricula of existing academic programs, as well as at key academic governmental and industry IA education standards and guidelines identified by 2009 IA working group in order to begin defining IA education space as a first step towards developing curricular guidelines.