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National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) Program:

National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) Program:. OAs I S. Overview. National requirement for IA education and training Systematic assessment Formal certification Duties and responsibilities of certified institutions:

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National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) Program:

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  1. National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) Program: OAsIS

  2. Overview • National requirement for IA education and training • Systematic assessment • Formal certification • Duties and responsibilities of certified institutions: • Information assurance professional • Designated approving authority • System administration in information systems security • Information systems security officer • System certifier

  3. History • Established: National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee • May 1998: Presidential Decision Directive 63 on Critical Infrastructure Protections • Jan 2000, initiated the IACE Program to establish standards

  4. Certified Institutions http://www.nsa.gov/ia/academia/iacmap.cfm?MenuID=10.2.1.4

  5. Criteria: Points System • Partnerships in IA Education (Max.15 pts) • IA Treated as a Multidisciplinary Science (Max. 30 pts) • University Encourages the Practice of IA (Max. 25 pts) • Academic Program Encourages Research in IA (Max 35 pts) • IA Curriculum Reaches Beyond Geographic Borders (Max 50 pts) • Faculty Active in IA Practice & Research & Contribute to IA Literature (Max 30 pts) • State–of-the-Art IA Resources (Max 30 pts) • Declared Concentrations (Max 30 pts) • Declared Center for IA Education or Research (Max 35 pts) • Full-time IA Faculty (Max 30 pts)

  6. Criteria 1: Partnerships in IA Education • Provide evidence (memorandum of agreement) of partnerships in IA education with minor colleges and university • Shared curriculum • Shared faculty • Reciprocity of credits

  7. Criteria 2: IA Treated as a Multidisciplinary Science • The academic program demonstrates that IA is a multidisciplinary science with the body of IA knowledge incorporated into various disciplines. • Evidence IA is taught as modules • IA concentration programs require non-technical courses of study, i.e., ethics, policy, legal, human performance, math, business.

  8. Criteria 3: University encourages the Practice of IA • The academic program demonstrates how the university encourages the practice of IA • Copy of university or departmental IA security plan. http://www.bsu.edu/web/security/ • Evidence of IA Awareness Program for faculty and students. http://www.bsu.edu/web/ucs/training/ • University appointed Information Systems Security Officer: Loren Malm

  9. Criteria 4: Academic Program Encourages Reaches in IA • The academic program encourages research in IA. • Program with IA concentrations have thesis, dissertation, or project requirements. • Individual IA courses require research paper(s) or project(s). • Non-IA courses encourage papers in IA topics or projects.

  10. Criteria 5: IA Curriculum Reaches Beyond Geographic Borders • The IA curriculum reaches beyond the normal geographic borders of the university Extended Education IA courses/workshops? • Use of distance education technology and techniques to deliver IA courses. • Sponsorship of regional or national IA curriculum workshops, colloquia, etc. Green is heading one up in March • Professional studies program leading to certificate in IA.

  11. Criteria 6: Faculty Active in IA Practice & Research & Contribute to IA Literature • Faculty is active in current IA practice and research, and contributes to IA literature. • Papers on IA topics within refereed journals or peer reviewed conference proceedings. Here you go Sushil…show off! • Faculty awarded grants for IA education and/or research development. Provide synopsis of IA related grants and dates. • Faculty and/or student presentations on IA topics at regional or national conferences. • Provide biographies to substantiate depth and length of faculty expertise. Got to get everyone to participate…I haven’t had any luck.

  12. Criteria 7: State-of-the-Art IA Resources • The university library and reference systems/materials and/or the IA Center maintain state-of-the-art IA resources. • Evidence of access to current INFOSEC educational text books, monographs, reports, and journals, including those in supporting areas such as Audit and Control. http://www.bsu.edu/library/ • Evidence of archive or access to historical IA documents. http://www.bsu.edu/library/

  13. Criteria 8: Declared Concentrations • Concentration on IA at the BS level. • Enrolled (current academic year) New program • Graduated (past 2 academic years) New program • Concentration on IA at the MS level. • Enrolled (current academic year) • Graduated (past 2 academic years)303. Concentration on IA at the Ph.D. level. • Enrolled (current academic year) • Graduated (past 2 academic years)

  14. Criteria 9: Declared Center for IA Education or Research • A declared center for IA education or a center for IA research from which IA curriculum is emerging. • The center may be school or university-based. • School Level • University Level Working on this

  15. Criteria 10: Full-time IA Faculty • University IA faculty consists of more than one individual devoted full time to IA.. • Identify by name the full-time faculty member working full time in IA with overall responsibility for the IA Program. Sushil Sharma • Additional full-time faculty member working full time in IA • Shared faculty (e.g. intra or inter departmental, or other 4-year graduate university) Kitchens, Harris, Whitesel, Chen • Each adjunct/part-time faculty

  16. The OAsISCenter Ball State University 2/25/05

  17. OAsIS Mission Statement To develop and promote organizational assurance and information security through leadership in research, education, training and application.

  18. Need for the Center • Adapt teaching methods and techniques • Updating curriculum to meet today’s and future needs • Endorsed by the Dept. of Defense • Information assurance is imperative to today’s environment

  19. OAsIS • Provide students hands-on learning experience • Provide outside organizations experts in the field of organizational assurance • Incorporate integrity and ethics in the curriculum • Incorporate the security assurance through multidisciplinary teachings • Challenge students to seek excellence • Challenge professors to look to the future for solutions

  20. Funding • To date: • Internal grant of $XXX • Internal support • Hardware • Graduate assistant • Desks and chairs • Space • External support • Computer donations

  21. Funding Requests • Standardized office equipment • More space for lab(s) • More graduate and student assistants • Marketing • Travel • Studio for video conferencing • Research grants

  22. Conclusions • Established need • OAsIS abilities • Funding now and for the future

  23. Conclusion • ISOM has the great beginnings to create a Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) Program • Established need • OAsIS abilities • Funding now and for the future • University support • Computers • Desks • Community support • Computers

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