An undergraduate information assurance curriculum

Recognizing that most information assurance education programs are intended for professional graduate students, this paper investigates whether a curriculum can be designed for undergraduates who desire entry level positions in information assurance. We will find that this task must be constrained before it can be solved and so, for that reason, will specify four requirements that our undergraduate curriculum will satisfy. We then propose and illustrate a five step design process that investigates the learning objectives, course structure, and assessment of an undergraduate information assurance curriculum.