Data Security

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Data Security

This competency introduces the role that data security plays in our everyday, the common threats to security, and techniques that help protect and ensure the integrity of data. Students will identify and apply information assurance principles of confidentiality, integrity, availability; identify the concepts risk management and risk management life cycles; describe the spectrum and implications of insider threats; explain various methods to prevent insider threats; explain authorization and access control principles and methods; and explain data classification standards and methodologies based on various risk factors.

Earning Criteria

- Complete the module with a score of 80% or better
OR
- Complete the UMBC course equivalent with a final grade of C or better

Jeremiah Thomas Sawyer

Assistant Director, Internships & Employment

Career Center

Math & Psychology 203

jsawyer2@umbc.edu

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