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Mission Statement:


Mission of the MSIA Program

The MSIA program's mission is to deliver a state-of-the-art, high-quality, convenient and reasonably priced degree to busy professionals committed to furthering their careers in information assurance. In particular, the MSIA program will appeal to chief information, technology, and information security officers of business and governmental organizations.

Additionally, it is designed for security administrators, network administrators, information technology specialists, professionals in the information technology field, military personnel, and Norwich University alumni. MSIA graduates are leaders and innovators in information assurance, bringing sound interdisciplinary perspectives to the field.

The program balances academic rigor with convenience. This combination maintains and respects Norwich University's long heritage while it meets the needs of today's working students. The program hires instructors of high academic training and professional stature, pays them well, and expects them to have highly personal and extraordinary academic interactions with our students.

Instruction in the core areas of Information Assurance — (1) Foundations, (2) Prevention: Technical Defenses, (3) Prevention: Human Factors (4) Detection, Response and Hot Topics (5) Emergency Management, Business Continuity Planning, Computer Emergency Response Teams, Digital Investigations and (6) Management Tools — is delivered in a context-specific framework with special emphasis on applying knowledge to each student's own work environment.


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