The Information Assurance Courseware Evaluation (IACE) Review Committee has certified that University of Illinois courseware maps 100% to the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) National Training Standards 4011 (for Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals, NSTISSI-4011) and 4013A (for System Administrators (SA), CNSSI-4013 Advanced Level). The IACE Program provides consistency in training and education for the information assurance skills that are critical to our nation. UIUC's certification will be valid through June 2009.
Degrees related to information assurance can be pursued in the departments of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Further information is available on the departmental websites:
(See also the ITI Security Roadmap)
Undergrad CS 210 (Ethical and Professional Issues in CS) or ECE 316 (Engineering Ethics), CS 241 (System Programming) or ECE 390 (Computer Engineering II), CS 461, CS 460, and CS 463 for advanced students; Graduate CS 463, CS 563
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Library and Information Science
Educational Policy Studies
Law
<!--h3>Relevant University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Courses
CS 210: Ethical & Professional Issues in CS
CS425/ECE428: Distributed Systems
CS 423: Operating Systems Design
CS 477: Formal Software Dev Methods
CS 498DM: Software Testing
CS 438/ECE 438: Communication Networks
CS 512: Data Mining
CS 523: Advanced Operating Systems
CS 536: Design Fault-Tolerant Dig Sys
CS 598CAG: Advanced Topics in Security
CS 591RHC: Security Reading Seminar
CS 591SN: New Systems and Networking Seminar
ECE 316: Engineering Ethics
Three of our Information Assurance courses are available to distance-learning students through the University of Illinois Internet Computer Science (I2CS) program. The certification sequence for Computer Security is outlined at http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/online/programs.php. The following courses are provided for both on-campus and remote students:
Lectures are taped and made available on the web. Students interact with the instructor and the teaching assistants through email and phone.
There are also CITES Courses available: http://www.oir.uiuc.edu/FAST3/workshops/computer_safety.htm
and, for UIUC students and staff, there are certificate courses on-line provided through third parties at minimal cost: http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/training/sun/ (Web Server and Security).
Our Center has been working with two community colleges: Parkland College and Moraine Valley Community College.
Parkland College is located in Champaign and is the community college that feeds the largest number of transfer students to UIUC. Working with Sean Mauney, the instructor of security courses at Parkland, we are identifying course materials we can share, course materials that would help train UIUC system administrators and system operators, and a set of guest lecturers and lectures between the two institutions to add depth to specific topics. A goal is to introduce course sequences that allow Parkland security students to transfer easily to the UIUC security concentrations.
We are also working with Erich Spengler and the Moraine Valley Community College, located in Palos Hills, a suburb south of Chicago. Erich Spengler is the Director of an NSF-funded Center for Systems Security in Information Assurance (CSSIA). This center works with other community colleges in the midwest and trains community college instructors to improve Information Assurance education in community colleges. The collaboration with Moraine Valley and CSSIA is aimed at both an exchange of course material and the construction of a pipeline of talented students from Moraine Valley and the other two-year colleges. We hope to encourage security students to continue for a four-year degree at UIUC or other four-year institutions.
UIUC instructor Dr. Susan Hinrichs is an NSF Visiting Committee member for CSSIA and is providing feedback on the CSSIA curriculum. Susan also worked with Moraine Valley to organize a midwest regional collegiate cyber defense competition in spring 2006 with UIUC as one of the host sites.
In the area of curriculum, we are working with both Parkland and CSSIA to identify and create course materials of common interest to our students. One initiative we have begun is to develop modules on secure software engineering for programming course sequences so that some of the modules apply both to the programming courses at the community colleges and to those at UIUC.
In Spring 2006, Susan Hinrichs and Sean Mauney collaborated and guest lectured in each other's courses "Advanced Computer Security" from Parkland and "Cyber Security Lab" from UIUC. They were thus able to leverage each other's expertise and provide better learning to both sets of students. In addition, it was an opportunity for Parkland students to learn about the possibilities for completing the requirements of a four-year degree at UIUC.
We are investigating how we may use our distance-learning taped lectures to provide teaching support for member CSSIA schools that may not have local expertise on particular security topics.