Information Assurance

Information Assurance at Collin

With high-profile and costly information breaches in the news regularly, the need to secure data and the systems that store it has never been more important. Play your part in keeping important information systems safe with a certificate or degree from Collin College's Information Assurance Cybersecurity program.

This unique offering prepares students to support measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. These measures include providing for the restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities. In contrast to our Information Systems Cybersecurity programs, these offerings focus on the human- and policy-derived causes of cybersecurity failures with a focus on proactive measures and analysis of security systems. Courses have a hands-on approach to learning industry best practices and applying them to real-world situations.
If your program requires a criminal background check, your placement in a required clinical site, cooperative, practicum, internship, and/or licensure/certification opportunity may be impacted. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your program director and check with your licensing/certifying entity, if any, to determine your status.

Students planning to transfer to a college or university should check with Collin College academic advisors. Also, check the degree requirement of the intended transfer college prior to beginning this program to verify course degree applicability. Note that this program is a pathway into the BAT Cybersecurity degree offered at Collin College.