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Mapping the National Security Agency's Information Assurance Certification 4012 to the IS Curriculum: The Air Force Education Example Kevin Lee Elder Air Force Institute of Technology Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA D. Dennis Strouble Air Force Institute of Technology Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7765, USA Dave Bouvin Air Force Institute of Technology Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA

Abstract: In this paper we will summarize the recent efforts of the Graduate Information Resource Management (IRM) program at the Air Force Institute of Technology to offer a specialization/track in Information Assurance to our students taught from an IRM perspective. This program is built off of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) 4012 Certification for Information Assurance. The NSA has identified sixty Centers of Excellence in Information Assurance Education. The majority of the Centers are primarily housed in Computer Science Departments or the courses offered are primarily taught by Computer Science Faculty (45 out of 60). By mapping our curriculum to the certification requirements for the NSA 4012 and mapping those to the knowledge clusters within the course’s learning objectives using the Maconachy Model we believe we have an interesting and robust Information Assurance Curriculum that others may want to compare to and investigate.

Keywords: information assurance, education, curriculum, NSA, 4012

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Recommended Citation: Elder, Strouble, and Bouvin (2005). Mapping the National Security Agency's Information Assurance Certification 4012 to the IS Curriculum: The Air Force Education Example. Information Systems Education Journal, 3 (41). http://isedj.org/3/41/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2004: §2444. ISSN: 1542-7382.)