Introduction – Growing IT Security – Importance and New Career Opportunities – Becoming and Information Security Specialist – Conceptualizing Information Security – Information Security Principles of Success : Introduction –Twelve Principles

Introduction – Security Policies set the stage for Success – Four Types of Policies – Development Management of Security policies – Policy support Documents – Suggested standards Taxonomy – Security Architecture and Models: Introduction – Defining the Trust Computing Base – Protection Mechanism in a Trusted Computing Base – System Security Assurance Concepts – Trusted Computer Security Evaluation Criteria

Federal Criteria for Information Technology Security – The Common Criteria – Confidentiality and Integrity Models – Law, Investigation and Ethics: Introduction – Types of Computer Crimes – How Computer Criminals commit Crimes – The Computer and the Law – Intellectual property law – Privacy and the Law – Computer Forensics – The Information Security Professionals Code of Ethics – Other Ethics Standards.

Introduction – Understanding the Physical Security Domain – Physical Security Threats – Providing Physical Security – Operations Security : Introduction – Operations Security Principles – Operations Security Process Controls – Operations Security Controls in Action

Introduction – Terms and Concepts –Principles of Authentication – Biometrics – Single sign-on-Remote User Access and Authentication – Cryptography: Introduction – Applying Cryptography to Information systems – Basic Terms and Concepts – Strength of Cryptosystems – Putting the pieces to work – Examining Digital Cryptography