This article briefly explains the motive, purpose, feasibility and vision of creating an introductory information assurance course serving not only students seeking to become INFOSEC professionals, but which also reaches out to students from such diverse academic areas as Accounting, Business Administration, Education, and Criminal Justice to provide fundamental knowledge and skills. This course has been successfully mapped to meet 100% of the requirements of National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security (NSTISS) standards 4011 and 4013E.