The goal of this course is to provide students with the necessary background needed in order to understand the different aspects of information security today. The course will give a broad overview of the essential ideas as well as the methods needed for providing and evaluating security in information processing systems (operating systems and applications, networks, protocols, etc.). The syllabus will cover foundational technical concepts (basic cryptology, access control principles, operating systems and database security, network security, etc.) as well as managerial (incident and risk management, business continuity, etc.) and policy ones.