CSEC 226B - Compliance

Credits: 3

Semesters Offered: Spring
Campus/Sites Offered: North Las Vegas, Online
Offering Note: No additional information available.

Description
Introduces the student to Information Systems Security Compliance. Covers security compliance assessment of security controls (physical, procedural, and technical), and methods to remediate security gaps discovered during the security assessment using Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT), and International Standards Organization/International Electro Technical Commission (ISO/IEC 27000) as the control frameworks. Discussions conducted on compliance areas include Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA).

Student Learning Outcomes

Produce formal security policy models to real world scenarios.
Specify the applicable laws for compliance in a given situation.
Determine what the laws mandate and where they apply.
Perform audits to determine compliance with laws.

Prerequisite: CSEC 125B with a grade of C or better; or Instructor approval
Corequisite: None

Graded: Letter Grade