An Exploration of the Current State of Information Assurance Education Stephen Cooper, Leader Purdue University 305 University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 1.765.494.7505 coopers@acm.org Christine Nickell, co-Leader Department of Defense 9800 Savage Road Suite 6722 Ft. Meade, MD 20755 1.410.854.6206 c.nicke2@radium.ncsc.mil Victor Piotrowski National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22230 1.703.292.5141 vpiotrow@nsf.gov Brenda Oldfield Department of Homeland Security NCSD Washington DC 20528 1.703.235.5184 Brenda.Oldfield@dhs.gov Ali Abdallah London South Bank University 102 Burrough Rd London SE1 0AA England 44.20.7815.7027 a.abdallah@lsbu.ac.uk Matt Bishop University of California, Davis One Shields Ave Davis, CA 95616 1.530.752.8060 bishop@cs.ucdavis.edu Bill Caelli Queensland University of Tech. GPO Box 2434 Brisbane Qld 4001 Australia 61.7.3138.9451 w.caelli@qut.edu.au Melissa Dark Purdue University 305 University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 1.765.494.5010 dark@purdue.edu E K Hawthorne Union County College 1033 Springfield Ave Cranford, NJ 07016 1.908.497.4232 ehawthorne@acm.org Lance Hoffman Computer Science Department George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 1.202.994.4955 lanceh@gwu.edu Lance C. Pérez University of Nebraska, Lincoln 209N SEC Lincoln, NE 68588 1.402.472.6258 lperez@unl.edu Charles Pfleeger Pfleeger Consulting Group 4519 Daveport St NW Washington, DC 20016 1.202.680.0540 chuck@pfleeger.com Richard Raines Air Force Institute of Technology 2950 Hobson Way, Bldg 642 Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433 1.937.255.6565 x4278 Richard.raines@afit.edu Corey Schou Idaho State University 921 South 8 th Ave., Stop 8020 Pocatello, ID 83209 1.208.282.3194 schou@mentor.net Joel Brynielsson Royal Inst. of Technology SE-100 44 Stockholm Sweden 46.70.5394300 joel@kth.se ABSTRACT Information Assurance and computer security are serious worldwide concerns of governments, industry, and academia. Computer security is one of the three new focal areas of the ACM/IEEE's Computer Science Curriculum update in 2008. This ACM/IEEE report describes, as the first of its three recent trends, "the emergence of security as a major area of concern." The importance of Information Assurance and Information Assurance education is not limited to the United States. Other nations, including the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. ITiCSE'09, July 6-9, 2009, Paris, France. Copyright 2009 ACM, ISBN 978-1-60558-886-5, $10.00 inroads — SIGCSE Bulletin - 127 - Volume 41, Number 4 — 2009 December _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - 109 - inroads — SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 41, Number 4 — 2009 December - 109 -