Information Security for Managers

(3 Credits)

This course focuses on the principles of information security and privacy from a risk management perspective. The students will learn why security is important to the enterprise and the impacts of security and privacy failures. Attacks will be discussed in terms of the goals of the attackers, their capabilities, and concepts of the attack’s operation. Each of the major security controls will be discussed in terms of the kinds of attacks they are meant to thwart, the concept of the defensive operation of both technology and related processes, and management issues relating to that control.