Information Assurance (IA) courses follow the National Security Agency guidelines and will meet 4011 and 4016 certification requirements. These IA courses will develop your skills for positions in systems and network security. Learn to detect, report, and resolve cyber threats. Course content also covers the use of code encryption to securely pass information between systems, building and using secure audio and video communications equipment, developing tamper protection products, and providing trusted information solutions. Students master the skills of assessing, auditing evaluation, testing network and systems security, and conducting forensic investigations. Students also learn how to perform information systems risk analysis and plan for disaster recovery and business continuity.
Requirements and Registration
You need only a bachelor's degree. The GRE or GMAT is not required to enroll in the Certificate program. To enroll, you must complete a Graduate School application (http://www.business.latech.edu/graduate/), pay the application fee, and provide an official copy of a baccalaureate degree-posted transcript, with the understanding you are not admitted to the graduate degree program but enrolling in a non-degree category. If you are seeking the IA certificate, please indicate so on the application. You must have a minimum of a 2.25 (4.0 system) grade point average on all work attempted or 2.50 on the last 60 hours attempted. Once admitted, you must earn a 3.0 or better each quarter of registration. Upon completion you will receive a graduate certificate and 12 hours of graduate credit. The courses will be offered on campus at Ruston and on Barksdale Air Force Base. Contact the Graduate Studies office for the schedule of offerings.
IA Course Sequence
CIS 521: This course examines basic enterprise information systems assurance principles and examines operational, technical, and administrative aspects of information assurance.
CIS 522: Prepares students to collect examine, and preserve digital evidence; and examines techniques used to prepare for, respond to, and investigate computing incidents.
CIS 523: Presents principles of disaster recovery and business continuity planning, and examines countermeasures that may be used to prevent system failure for an organization.
CIS 524: Presents the organizational issues of risk analysis including reliability, safety, security, and privacy. Methods for risk assessment and security evaluations are examined.
- Course
- CIS 521 Introduction to Information Assurance*Description
- CIS 522: Incident Response and Computer Forensics: Preq. CIS 521Description
- CIS 523: Disaster Recovery and business Continuity: Preq. CIS 521Description
- CIS 524: Information Systems Assurance Risk Analysis: Preq. CIS 521Description
- TOTAL
- *CIS 521 is a prerequisite for the other IA courses. There are no other prerequisite requirements for the courses.
- Hours
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 12
Requirements and Registration
You need only a bachelor's degree. The GRE or GMAT is not required to enroll in the Certificate program. To enroll, you must complete a Graduate School application (http://www.business.latech.edu/graduate/), pay the application fee, and provide an official copy of a baccalaureate degree-posted transcript, with the understanding you are not admitted to the graduate degree program but enrolling in a non-degree category. If you are seeking the IA certificate, please indicate so on the application. You must have a minimum of a 2.25 (4.0 system) grade point average on all work attempted or 2.50 on the last 60 hours attempted. Once admitted, you must earn a 3.0 or better each quarter of registration. Upon completion you will receive a graduate certificate and 12 hours of graduate credit. The courses will be offered on campus at Ruston and on Barksdale Air Force Base. Contact the Graduate Studies office for the schedule of offerings.
MBA Concentration in Information Assurance
The IA courses may also be used as a concentration for the MBA degree. For this option, you must be admitted to the MBA program. This may be done before or after the IA sequence is completed. Visit our web page for information on the MBA with an Information Assurance Concentration.
MBA
- Course
- ACCT 505 Accounting Analysis for Decision Making
- CIS 510 Information Resource Management
- ECON 510 Managerial Economics
- FINC 515 Financial Management
- MGMT 510 Contemporary Management
- MKTG 530 Marketing Management
- QA 525 Quantitative Approaches for Decision Making
- MGMT 595 Administrative Policy
- Core MBA
- TOTAL
- Hours
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 24
- 36
For more information, contact:
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
Dr. Douglas Amyx
318.257.4528
Academic Vita (PDF)
damyx@latech.edu
Office Coordinator
Sally Strickland
sstrick@latech.edu