Siedlce, Poland

Information Security

Bachelor's
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⇑Information Security at UwS

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: security services
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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⇑Test: Is Information Security the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You find out a website stores passwords in plain text. What goes through your mind?

2. How would you feel about a capture-the-flag competition, where you break into deliberately vulnerable systems?

3. Have you ever looked at how data actually travels across a network?

4. You discover a security flaw in an app you use. What do you do?

5. How do you feel about maths topics like prime numbers, modular arithmetic and probability?

6. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll do lab exercises with students from many countries. How does that sound?

7. Would you enjoy writing scripts that automatically scan a network for weak spots?

8. A server shows strange activity at night. How do you respond?

9. How do you feel about the ethical side of hacking – knowing where the legal line is?

10. What motivates you most to study Information Security?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Information
Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty. It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts. As it regards data, the information's existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer (it exists beyond an event horizon, for example), while in the case of knowledge, the information requires a cognitive observer.
Information Security
Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction of information. It is a general term that can be used regardless of the form the data may take (e.g., electronic, physical). Information security's primary focus is the balanced protection of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data (also known as the CIA triad) while maintaining a focus on efficient policy implementation, all without hampering organization productivity. This is largely achieved through a multi-step risk management process that identifies assets, threat sources, vulnerabilities, potential impacts, and possible controls, followed by assessment of the effectiveness of the risk management plan.
Security
Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, and any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by its environment.
Information
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Sir Robert Chiltern, in An Ideal Husband, Act 1.
Information
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey (6 January 1816) ME 14:384.
Information
Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911), American author. The Technique of Rest, Ch. 2 (1892).
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