Infusing Information Assurance into an Undergraduate CS Curriculum

With the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, the focus on securing information has become a topic of increasing importance. To ensure the security of information in a society of e-commerce, e-business, and e-sharing it is essential for graduates of computer science departments to be trained in the fundamentals of information security and to gain hands-on experience with security tools. To address this issue computer science educators are turning their attentions to the development of software and information security courses. The goal of this paper is to describe the development of an Information Assurance track in Computer Science and Information Systems at the undergraduate level. The paper describes existing courses that have been modified to include security concepts as well as the paper introduces the new courses that have been developed.