Information Systems Risk and Security
HIT8408
Overview
To enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into a course from the provider.
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Level of study: What does Postgraduate mean?
Postgraduate
EFTSL: What does EFTSL mean?
0.125
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Fully Online
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
No
Duration:
13 weeks
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Domestic student fee:
$2,200.00 (AUD)
International student fee:
$2,425.00 (AUD)
Description
This unit aims to provide students with a broad overview of the issues and challenges associated with successfully managing the risks associated with the implementation and utilisation of IS/IT in organisations, and to develop skills and strategies for mitigating such risks. Students will learn the relationships between the costs of implementing sound risk and security measures, and how these balance against the need to deliver value to an organisation from its considerable investments in IT. In addition students will learn to develop a risk management and a security management plan, including a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan, and will be able to recognise the major risk and security factors associated with IS failure.
Enrolment Restriction
In order to enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into one of the following courses:
If you wish to seek approval to enrol in this unit without being accepted in a course, please contact OUA regarding the process.
Assessment
- Assignment 1 (20%)
- Assignment 2 (20%)
- Invigilated Exam (40%)
- Test — Weekly challenge tests (20%)
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will be able to:
- describe the importance of identifying and managing IS-related risk and security issues in organisations, and the relationship between these and the achievement of business value from IS/IT investments
- recognise the costs of not appropriately identifying and managing risk and security concerns, resulting in IS/IT failures, dysfunctional systems and systems which fail to deliver value to key stakeholders
- develop strategies for IS risk and security management, including the systems components of business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning
- explain the major theories and concepts associated with IS failure and the management of IS risk, including factors argued to lead to unsatisfactory outcomes with respect to IS/IT
- recognise the relevance of human factors (culture & politics) and organisational factors (complexity, rate of change, etc.) to IS risk identification and security management
- adopt a critical approach to current orthodoxy (and the divergence between practice and theory) on IS risk management and security management
- appreciate the importance of risk management and security management in the context of IT projects.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Identifying and managing IS risk costs of not appropriately identifying and managing risk |
| 2 | Information security and risk management frameworks |
| 3 | Developing strategies for IS risk management, including business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning |
| 4 | Information and security architecture |
| 5 | The major theories and concepts associated with IS failure and the management of IS risk and security issues |
| 6 | Human factors (culture & politics) and organisational factors (complexity, rate of change, etc) to risk identification and management |
| 7 | System auditing |
| 8 | Security management |
| 9 | Policy and standards development |
| 10 | Risk and security issues within the context of an IT project |
Study Resources
This unit is delivered using the following methods and materials:
Instructional Methods
- Audio/Video conferencing
- Blogs
- Chat rooms
- Discussion Forum/Discussion Board
- Online Quizzes/Tests
- Online assignment submission
- Podcasting/Lecture capture
- Standard Media
- Streaming Multimedia
- Web links
Relevant Courses
This unit is a core requirement in the following courses:
This unit may be eligible for credit towards other courses:
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
