<p>The Information Security major is new in most Universities and Colleges. I am looking to major in this, but since it is so new its hard to find colleges with it, atleast looking on online searches like Collegeboard.com's. I was wondering if anyone knew of good 4 year schools that have Information security or something similar as a major. I am open to going to any where. I'd like to stay close to NY -- a few hundered miles but I wouldnt mind going to Cali.
I know of Champlain and 1 or 2 other schools that have it as a Major and its been hard to find more schools with it as a major.
Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Is this similar to Information Technology?</p>
<p>Yeah. It is more fucused on keeping a network secure tho. </p>
<p>This from Champlain College's website explains better than i can
<a href="http://infosec.champlain.edu/about_infosec.html%5B/url%5D">http://infosec.champlain.edu/about_infosec.html</a></p>
<p>and the governments def:
the protection of information systems against unauthorized access to or modification of information, whether in storage, processing or transit, and against the denial of service to authorized users or the provision of service to unauthorized users, including those measures necessary to detect, document, and counter such threats</p>