Information Assurance: Education at Doctoral Level— An International Look

Abstract

Information is the driving force for the society and development of different kind. Due to the importance of information different organizations, institutions are giving priorities for information affairs. The field of Information is called Information Science. There are few various close disciplines of information viz. Information Studies, Information Management, Information Studies. The emergence and need of Information lead to different subfields and categories of Information Science. Information Privacy and Security is an important concept these days and as a result, this has also become a field of study. Information Assurance is an advanced interdisciplinary field responsible for secure information security and privacy management. Information Assurance in short known as IA. Information Assurance is the extension of Information Security. The field Information Security deals with both computational and manual information security related management. Though, Information Assurance is additionally responsible for dealing legal, managerial and social issues related to Information Privacy and Security. Due to the application and requirement of the Information Assurance, many universities around of the world have started the academic program on Information Assurance not only at Bachelors level but also at Masters and Doctoral level. Universities those who are offering Information Assurance Doctoral program comes with both only research approach and both research-skill (coursework) approach. This paper is a theoretical one but focused on case study related to the PhD and other doctoral degrees in Information Assurance and allied program in International Universities.