Credibility of information technology security as an object of study for future specialists in information security

The article reveals the necessity to increase the degree of assurance in the security of information technologies for future specialists. The reasons to study the evaluation system of assurance in security of information technologies are given. They are: 1) development of the organization and its employees as a goal to achieve information system security the credibility of which is estimated; 2) the credibility subject in the security of information systems, subject’s competences affecting the result of the credibility evaluation; 3) socio-technical nature of the information system when the technical components are assessed as well as the information users both being integral parts of this system; 4) technical and human-oriented methods to provide credibility of an information system; 5) activities to ensure the credibility of the information system security and their results. The pedagogical conditions to implement the imperatives into practice are defined. They are: problem orientation of the subject “Information Security Management”; strengthening the interdisciplinary links with Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, Psychology and Pedagogy; development of innovative culture of students to model new standard evaluation criteria of credibility and its implementation into practice, which will be used to develop software implementing human-oriented evaluation procedures.