Why Information Assurance?
Due to the increasing proliferation & sophistication
of global cyber-threats and growing regulatory compliance, the demand for
security professionals has seen a continued increase in Australia.
With this exponential growth in electronic evidence, law enforcement
agencies have had to limit the number of cases forensic computing experts
can take on, due to a shortage of qualified staff.
The term Information Assurance has emerged
as the need to protect information during transit, processing, or storage
within complex and/or widely dispersed computers and communication system
networks has become apparent. Widely favoured within the defence, law
enforcement, Federal Governments and the private security and banking
sectors, Information Assurance terminology supersedes such terms as Computer
Security and Information Security.
Growing areas of Information Assurance
include Forensic Computing,
E-Discovery and the protection of the National Cyber Critical
Infrastructure; particularly the process control systems on which Australian
and International utilities, industry and the transport sectors rely on for
their functionality.
Information
Assurance is offered at UniSA in the form of a nested suite of three
programs at post graduate level. Forensic Computing is available as a
Graduate Certificate. Which program you choose to start on will depend on
your career needs, your previous level of academic qualification, and your
previous professional experience. The suite of programs offer flexibility in
the progression and advancement of qualifications as well as the mode of
delivery.