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Cybersecurity Practice in Organisations (ISYS90120)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
Overview
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This subject 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 instill 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:
- Critically analyse cybersecurity issues relating to the evolving strategic and operational context of organisations, IT systems and communication networks
- Critically review cybersecurity-related people, process and technology challenges to real-world organisations
- 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
- Discuss and critically reflect on how cybersecurity protects information and knowledge in the context of organisations
- 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: 17 December 2024