Information Assurance

Overview

We've developed the information assurance curriculum in conjunction with top employers, meaning you'll gain real-world experience through interactions with actual organizations and learn job-relevant skills from case studies of real information assurance crises. Your courses in the Information Assurance programme at University of Maryland University College will feature topics in network and internet security, intrusion detection and protection, cryptology and data protection, and computer forensics.

Through your coursework, you will learn how to:

• Secure information using symmetric and asymmetric key techniques (including the Advanced Encryption Standard and RSA public key cryptography) and message integrity techniques
• Protect networks using risk analysis, defense models, security policy development, authentication and authorization controls, firewalls, packet filtering, virtual private networks (VPNs), and wireless network security
• Respond to attacks with damage assessments, data forensics, data mining, attack tracing, and system recovery processes for continuity of operation
• Identify system vulnerabilities and attack patterns and solve problems with intrusion detection tactics