Introduction

This curriculum starts with the definition of information and information assurance, establishes how to evolve "Information Assurance Expectations" or "Security Policy", and moves rapidly through the design of policy enforcement mechanisms and incident detection mechanisms that provide the needed information protection, along with the methods and metrics with which one can convince an organization that these policy enforcement mechanisms are adequate, resulting in "acceptable risk".

The first course, an introductory overview is free and can be found here: CSE0: Introduction to Cyber Security Engineering

Courseware for this curriculum is continually being developed and refined and is available here. Additional courses are under development.

The full curriculum is described here.

These courses are taught by "Professors of Practice" who have spent their entire careers in the Information Assurance field, making major contributions to the field over the past several decades.

Instructors:

Lyndon Pierson is a Hardware/Software Security Design Engineer with over 35 years experience in high speed secure communications, network security, and information assurance. He is a Senior Scientist, Emeritus from Sandia National Laboratories where his work focused on the design of High Assurance Information Systems. Recently, as a Fellow of the University of Southern California Information Assurance Program, and as a lecturer at USC, he co-developed and taught major portions of a nine-course Masters of Cyber Security Engineering degree curriculum and is now teaching parts of that curriculum at NM Tech in Socorro, NM.

Blaine Burnham has developed and taught Information Assurance studies at New Mexico Tech, University of Nebraska, Georgia Tech after many years of experience with security systems at NSA, and the DOE National Laboratories LANL, SNL, and INL.

Other "Professors of Practice" continue to critique and contribute to this curriculum and will be credited here as their materials are added to this repository.