A Qualitative, High Level INFOSEC Assessment Methodology (IAM)
In May 1998, the INFOSEC community became aware of the White Paper titled "The Clinton Administration’s Policy on Critical Infrastructure Protection: Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD-63). Shortly after this date, the National Security Agency (NSA) using its technology transfer charter, took a proactive stance to the PDD-63 by offering an INFOSEC Assessment Methodology (IAM) course to government and private sector security professionals. The intent of the course is to make available a qualitative (not quantitative) approach for carrying out a high-level policy/documentation review that is non-intrusive, uses non-attribution (the process is not an inspection or an audit), yet produces an analysis of an organization’s overall security posture.
The Colloquium™ recognizes that the protection of information and infrastructures that are used to create, store, process, and communicate information is vital to business continuity and security. The goal of The Colloquium™ is to work together to define current and emerging requirements for information assurance education and to influence and encourage the development and expansion of information assurance curricula, especially at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
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