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Cybersecurity Practice in Organisations (ISYS90120)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2024
Overview
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This unit presents a series of teaching cases to immerse students in the real-world context of cybersecurity in organisations. Through the teaching cases, students will confront challenges to the management practice of cybersecurity. The teaching cases will provoke robust student-led discussions that will disentangle complex cybersecurity management concepts and instil confidence and critical thinking in students and encourage them to express their own ideas. Teaching cases have been selected to address a wide range of management challenges and expose key risks that organisations face today. These include the risks of adopting a compliance culture, fragmentation in organisational structures, poor decision-making, inadequate skills and experience, and misperceptions about the role of the cybersecurity function.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- ILO1: Critically analyse cybersecurity issues relating to the evolving strategic and operational context of organisations, IT systems and communication networks
- ILO2: Critically review cybersecurity-related people, process and technology challenges to real-world organisations
- ILO3: Discuss and critically reflect on how cybersecurity protects the business function of the organisation through the application of strategy, risk, policy, training, governance, and culture
- ILO4: Discuss and critically reflect on how cybersecurity protects information and knowledge in the context of organisations
- ILO5: Discuss and critically reflect on how cybersecurity addresses a range of threats both purposive and incidental, spanning people, process, technology, and information
Generic skills
- Have in-depth knowledge of a specialist area through exposure and study of cybersecurity areas of knowledge
- Reach a high level of achievement in writing, research or project activities problem-solving and communication through the writing of a comprehensive consulting proposal
- Report-writing skills
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Option 1:
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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ISYS90090 | Cyber Security Management | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Option 2:
Selection of the Cyber Security specialisation (formal) in the MC-IT Master of Information Technology
AND
Special permission from the subject coordinator to enrol in the subject.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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One reflective journal requiring 20 - 25 hours of work. Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) 1-5 are addressed in this assessment.
| Weeks 2, 4, 6 | 20% |
Scenario Analysis Report requiring 20 - 25 hours of work. Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) 1-5 are addressed in this assessment.
| Week 5 | 20% |
Peer Response to Scenario Analysis - Report, requiring 13 - 15 hours of work. Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) 1-5 are addressed in this assessment.
| Week 7 | 10% |
Consulting Report, requiring 70 - 75 hours of work. Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) 1-5 are addressed in this assessment.
| Week 8 | 50% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2024
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Additional delivery details
This subject is a semester 1 intensive subject. The subject runs for 6 weeks (+ 2 weeks assessment period).
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Information Technology Course Master of Information Systems - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024