This course provides the student with the framework and policies, concepts, principles, structures, and standards used to establish criteria for the protection of information assets and to assess the effectiveness of that protection. It includes issues of data ownership, retention and destruction, and privacy. It also emphasizes the power of administrative, technical and physical controls required for the effective protection of the confidentiality, integrity, and the availability of information assets.

At minimum students should have attained either of the following:

• CompTIA Security+ Certification

• Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH) Certification

• Equivalent training to the above mentioned certifications