The book that you are about to read is one of the many outputs of our collaborative research team in the Master of Information Systems Assurance Program (MISAM) at the Concordia University of Edmonton (CUE) in Alberta, Canada. CUE’s MISAM program got its start in September of 2013, thanks to the vision and hard work of Professor Ron Ruhl to whom this manual is dedicated. Ruhl was also the creator of our Master of Information Systems Security Program (MISSM) a few years earlier. I should also mention that MISSM was the first graduate-level information security program in Canada. Since then, the number of cybersecurity programs in both Canada and the United States has exploded, but as of this writing, MISAM is and remains the first and only graduate-level information systems assurance program in Canada.