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Study diploma it & computer science online with La Trobe University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Introduction to Cybersecurity

Animation and Motion Graphics Design

Data and Analysis

Australia and Cyber Intelligence

Data Analytics Concepts

Technologies: Digital Solutions

Information Technology Fundamentals

Business Intelligence

Digital Design 1

Game Design Introduction

In the modern Internet era, industries and organisations need to be prepared to defend against cyber threats and attacks. Stakeholders should be familiar with basic principles and best practices of cybersecurity to protect their businesses and personal information. In this subject, these principles and strategies for future cyber security are explored. Key topics include: information security; ethical and legal practices; mitigating cyber vulnerabilities; and the process of incident response and analysis. The subject introduces the broad discipline of cybersecurity and outlines how to ensure the privacy, reliability, confidentiality and integrity of information systems and mitigate against cyber threats and risks.

Explore the basic principles of cybersecurity. Get familiar with industry terminology, software, and best practices. You’ll learn about the importance of protecting data. Study real-world cyber threats and delve into current solutions.

In this subject you are introduced to the steps involved in designing and creating a software solution to simple real-life problems. To enable students to design a program, the subject introduces the way to break down the problems into smaller parts and analyse them methodically by using simple techniques such as drawing flowcharts. You will be introduced to the Python programming language as a means of creating executable program code to implement working software solutions.

Programming Environment

In this subject, you will learn design, management, extraction, integration, and reporting of health data. You will gain practical skills in developing and maintaining fully relational health databases using national health data standards and models. Theoretical and logical principles of health database and system administration will be introduced, including entity-relationship diagrams, normalisation, meta-data and an introduction to SQL for relational database queries and reporting. Specialised tools for visualisation of health data sets will also be taught.

Health Database Fundamentals

In this subject, you will learn about the functions of health information examined in the context of organisational governance. You will demonstrate your understanding of the complex interrelationships between people, organisational structure, processes, technology and associated outcomes using case studies. The purpose of the subject is to help you develop understandings of the multi-purposes of health information for health care decision making, providing the critical evidence in patient care outcomes and organisational performance, as it relates to quality service delivery and patient safety. You will use audit tools to measure and aggregate data to illustrate performance and opportunities for improvement. This subject helps you to understand the important role that the Health Information Manager plays in providing performance-based information as well as monitoring and reporting upon clinical data for service improvement opportunities.This subject is recommended for second-year undergraduate students who have completed all first-year subjects in the Bachelor of Health Information Management. This subject includes synchronous sessions held during business hours. This means that you will attend sessions each week simultaneously with your facilitator and classmates.

Health Information Governance

In this subject, you are introduced to the broad concepts of health data and system development lifecyle (SDLC) and the purpose, scope, design and functionalities of health information systems. You will explore the theoretical concepts behind systems planning, analysis, design, implementation, evaluation, support and maintenance of the systems development lifecycle including issues that impact systems, data and information security. Through your assessments, you will demonstrate technical skills in systems planning, analysis and design phases of the SDLC by creating user stories and data flow diagrams as well as evaluating systems design. You will develop an understanding of how health professionals interact with the health information systems development lifecycle.

Health Information Systems Analysis and Design

This subject begins with an overview of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) architecture and security attacks on system services, and a discussion of different existing security mechanisms. The main focus includes cryptography, system security, network and web security. The students learn: <ol><li>Cryptographic algorithms and protocols, underlying network security applications including single-key and public-key encryption methods, hash functions, digital signatures and key exchange; </li><li> Intrusion detection systems and firewalls that can be used to protect a computer system from security threats, such as intruders, viruses, and worm; </li><li>The use of cryptographic algorithms and security protocols for providing network and internet security in terms of user authentication/identification, IP security and Web security.</li></ol>

Networks Systems and Web Security

In this subject students will examine: IPng Protocol and its features; Routing protocols like RIPv1/v2, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, and their performance under different operating environments; Transmission Control Protocol and flow control algorithms; UDP protocol and its uses.

Intermediate Network Engineering

This subject will strengthen and reinforce your knowledge of the design, development and deployment of network infrastructure, including OSI and TCP/IP layering architecture, routing protocols, LANs, WLANs and VLANS; network management; network security through ACLs, firewalls; and network virtualization and automation. Labs are designed carefully to broaden your understanding of how to apply theoretical concepts in designing a large-scale network. The content of this subject prepares you for Cisco Academy certification. This subject assesses competency and only pass or fail grades are awarded.

Frontiers in Network Technologies

This subject considers the procedures related to digital forensic investigation in computing and networking scenarios. Students critically appraise the key concepts associated with the data hiding, evidence collection and validation and traffic analysis required to perform forensic analysis in a digital environment. Students learn about the importance of the legal considerations in the documentation of forensic evidence. Case studies are incorporated for students to apply practical forensic tools.

Introduction to Computer Forensics

Penetration testing encompasses the evaluation of organizational vulnerabilities by conducting thorough security testing. This subject provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the principles and procedures involved in system penetration testing and the ethical and legal obligations. It explores the utilization of popular software tools employed during penetration testing exercises. Through this course, students will acquire knowledge about different types of penetration testing and their respective phases, as well as gain expertise in interpreting results obtained from commonly utilized penetration testing tools. Additionally, students will recognize the significant value of penetration testing for businesses and organizations and will develop the skills to effectively report on and enhance an organization&#39;s security resilience using testing outcomes.

Introduction To Penetration Testing

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