This presentation discusses the importance of Information Assurance, its countermeasures, solutions, risks, and aspects. Information Assurance is a systematic practice of modeling assurance that serves as a guarantee for numerous systems. The countermeasures include technology, awareness, and training. The solutions include availability, integrity, authentication, and confidentiality. The risks associated with Information Assurance are security failures, flaws in security, issues with performance, problems in compliance, and poor code quality. The aspects of Information Assurance include management of risk, training and professionalism of the workforce, issue-specific and system-specific policies, monitoring, managing, and administrating, and assessing and auditing.