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What is IA?". Information Assurance (IA) concerns information operations that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and nonrepudiation.This includes providing for restoration of information systems by incorporat
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1. National Security AgencyCenters of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance EducationCertifying the UW System Dave DittrichThe Information School
8/24/03
2. What is “IA?” Information Assurance (IA) concerns information operations that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and nonrepudiation.
This includes providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities.
Source: National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Instruction (NSTISSI) No. 4009, January 1999
3. What is COEIAE? Outreach program designed and operated by the National Security Agency (NSA)
Fulfills the spirit of Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD 63 - National Policy on Critical Infrastructure Protection, May 199)
Goal: To reduce vulnerability in our national information infrastructure by promoting higher education in IA, and producing a growing number of professionals with IA expertise in various disciplines
4. NSA Centers As of May 2003, 50 Centers nationwide
Mostly the East Coast
Closest to Seattle are Portland State, University of Idaho, Idaho State UniversityFor more info:http://www.nsa.gov/isso/programs/coeiae/index.htm