M.TECH. in IT and Computing Areas with Possibilities in Information Assurance Specializations : The Innovative Frontiers in Education

Information Technology is an important domain within Applied Science and Technology responsible for information affairs leading to collection, selection, organization, processing, management and dissemination. Information Technology has consist with different components and among these important are web technology, network technology, database technology, multimedia technology etc. As far as Information Assurance is concerned, this is fall under the area of network technology mainly within IT and partially database and web technology. The IT and Computing education in India offered in two platform, in one it is the area of Science (Applied) and in another it is fall under the area of Technology/Engineering. This the IT programs comes with BSc/MSc and BTech and MTech nomenclature. However the BTech and MTech is also offered as BE/ME Degree in some respect. In recent past many universities in India have started the IT and Computing programs with specialization or Honors or Major. The importance of Information Assurance and Cyber Security is increasing; this paper is proposed about the Information Assurance major with MTech-IT and allied degrees keeping in mind Indian need in industry and policies of higher educational institutions. Paper highlighted the model curricula in this context as well. As a whole complete SWOT has been mapped of Information Assurance programs in MTech-IT and allied fields