This foundation course provides managers with the essential framework needed to design and develop an effective information security program.  Students explore methods used to raise general security awareness, review current industry practices, and develop expertise needed to adapt policies to safeguard proprietary information.  Instruction focuses on key security principles that are critical to protecting information assets and network infrastructure in open access computing environments. The principles of authentication, data integrity, privacy (encryption), access control, trust and non-repudiation are explored in detail.