JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives:

• To make the students understand the types of roles they are expected to play in the society as practitioners of the civil engineering profession
• To develop some ideas of the legal and practical aspects of their profession.

Course Outcomes:

• Understand the importance of professional practice, Law and Ethics in their personal lives and professional careers.
• Learn the rights and responsibilities as an employee, team member and a global citizen
• Understand the information processing and secure program administration
• Understand the fundamentals of Organizational and Human security standards

UNIT - I

Introduction to Computer Security: Definition, Threats to security, Government requirements, Information Protection and Access Controls, Computer security efforts, Standards, Computer Security mandates and legislation, Privacy considerations, International security activity.

UNIT - II

Secure System Planning and administration, Introduction to the orange book, Security policy requirements, accountability, assurance and documentation requirements, Network Security, The Red book and Government network evaluations.

UNIT - III

Information security policies and procedures: Corporate policies- Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier3 policies - process management-planning and preparation-developing policies-asset classification policy- developing standards.

UNIT - IV

Information security: fundamentals-Employee responsibilities- information classification- Information handling- Tools of information security- Information processing-secure program administration.

UNIT - V

Organizational and Human Security: Adoption of Information Security Management Standards, Human Factors in Security- Role of information security professionals.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Debby Russell and Sr. G. T Gangemi, "Computer Security Basics (Paperback)”, 2 nd Edition, O’ Reilly Media, 2006.
• 2. Thomas R. Peltier, “Information Security policies and procedures: A Practitioner’s Reference”, 2nd Edition Prentice Hall, 2004.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Kenneth J. Knapp, “Cyber Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions”, IGI Global, 2009.
• 2. Thomas R Peltier, Justin Peltier and John blackley,” Information Security Fundamentals”, 2 nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1996
• 3. Jonathan Rosenoer, “Cyber law: the Law of the Internet”, Springer-verlag, 1997 James Graham, “Cyber Security Essentials” Averbach Publication T & F Group.