Media Release
November 16 2009
New UniSA program to tackle cybercrime
Producing
graduates with the technical skills to solve cybercrime is the focus of
a new Masters program to be introduced at
UniSA in 2010.
The Master of
Science (Information Assurance) will be offered by UniSA’s
Division of Information
Technology, Engineering and Environment at
Mawson Lakes
Campus to tackle the increasing problems of computer hacking,
botnets and threats to critical infrastructure.
ITEE Dean of Research and Director of UniSA’s Forensic Computing Lab,
Associate Professor Jill Slay, said the program would help meet the
growing demand for IT security professionals in Australia.
“In the past 10 years, the amount of electronic crime evidence requiring
analysis has increased 100,000 fold,” she said.
“There is actually a limit to the number of cases that forensic
computing experts can take on due to shortages of qualified staff.
“This new program will train a new generation of forensic computing,
critical infrastructure, defence, law enforcement, banking industry and
IT security professionals who will be able to present scientific
evidence in a court of law.”
The program is the only one of its kind in Australia and is supported
nationally by the Australian Federal Police, all State Law Enforcement
agencies and the private sector.
Associate Professor Slay said the term ‘information assurance’ had
emerged as the need to protect information during transit, processing or
storage within complex and widely dispersed computers and communication
systems networks. Information assurance had superseded such terms as
computer security and information security.
In addition to the Masters program, Information Assurance will also be
offered at the Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate level.
More information is available at
www.unisa.edu.au/itee/IA/default.asp
Contact for interview
-
Associate Professor Jill Slay office (08) 8302 3840 mobile 0412
263 421
Media contact
- Kelly Stone office (08) 8302 0963 mobile 0417 861 832