Report on Information Assurance Curriculum Development
Jim Davis · 2002
This report details the participants, process, and output from two curriculum development workshops. The first was held in July 2001 (See Appendix A for a list of the participants) and the second was held in April 2002 (see Appendix B). The workshops were sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation Grant DUE # 0124409. The objective for this project is to develop a curriculum framework for undergraduate and graduate programs in Information Assurance. The framework includes: identification of broad areas of knowledge considered important for practicing professionals in information assurance, identification of key learning objectives for each of these areas, identification of a body of core knowledge and skills that all programs should contain, and a model curriculum including scope and sequence. The framework's development is undertaken via workshops and working groups of leading information assurance educators leading to a draft document which will then be widely distributed for comment and dissemination.