Information Assurance / Information Security / Network Security What High School Counselors Should...
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Information Assurance / Information Security / Network Security What High School Counselors Should Know Ken Crockett Director, Critical Infrastructures & Cyber Protection Center
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Information Assurance / Information Security / Network Security What High School Counselors Should Know
Ken CrockettDirector, Critical Infrastructures & Cyber Protection Center
What does it mean?
• NS = Network Security
• IS = Information Security
• IA = Information Assurance
NetworkSecurity
InformationSecurity
Information Assurance
Employment opportunities vast
• Federal, State, Local Governments• *Dept of Defense – NSA, DISA• *Dept of Homeland Security • Industry - all DoD and DHS
contractors plus others (ex. SAIC, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Booz Allen Hamilton)
• Private Sector – banks, insurance companies, mortgage brokers
NO INDUSTRY IS IMMUNE – ANYONE WITH SENSITIVE DATA IS AT RISK!
Pathways to Enter IA Careers
• Earn an industry certification• Earn an associate’s degree in
IA/IS/NS• Earn a bachelor’s degree in
IA/IS/NS• Encourage students to
consider all of these options – ONE STEP AT A TIME
How can Capitol College help?
• Articulation Agreements with three community colleges already exist – AACC, PGCC, CCBC
• More agreements coming…• Capitol’s Bachelor of Science
in Information Assurance includes– A+ Industry Certification Prep– Network+ Industry Cert Prep
• Job Guarantee!
What is a Security Clearance?
A security clearance is adetermination by the UnitedStates government that a person is eligible for access to classified information.
Overview
• Security Clearances– Confidential, Secret, Top
Secret
• Highly Sensitive Information– Sensitive Compartmented
Information (SCI)– Special Access Programs (SAP)
• Clearance Process– Preinvestigation– Investigation– Adjudication
• Polygraph
Getting a Clearance
• What types of things can prevent someone from getting a clearance?
Four Criteria for Denial
• An individual convicted of a crime and sentenced to prison for more than one year.
• An applicant is (currently) an illegal user of, or is addicted to, a controlled substance.
• The subject is mentally incompetent.
• The individual has been discharged
or dismissed from the armed forces under dishonorable conditions.
Lifestyle
• Looks for issues in a person’s private life for that which he or she might be blackmailed.
• Questions might concern drug and alcohol use, sexual preference and behavior, mental health, family issues, relationships, compulsive or addictive behavior, finances, and more.
Issues of Concern
If issues of “concern” Surface during any phase of security processing,coverage is expanded to resolve those issues.
