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Undergraduate TAS-ZAT115-2021

IT Security Management

Enrolments for this year have closed. Keep exploring subjects.

Duration

10 weeks

Study method

100% online

Available loans

  • HECS-HELP
  • FEE-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

UTAS
Australia’s fourth oldest university, the University of Tasmania, is highly regarded internationally for teaching and academic excellence. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees and more than 50 postgraduate programs across a range of disciplines. The university offers students a diverse range of opportunities, the chance to learn from leading experts, and excellent preparation for their future careers.

QS RANKING 2021

19

Times Higher Education Ranking 2021

25

  • 2021

Subject details

What you'll learn

Upon completion of this subject, students should be able to:

  1. Apply information security and risk standards and IT security baselines to a given context
  2. Analyse and report on information technology security management issues and emergent trends
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of the current legal and ethical positions that relate to information technology security management issues
  4. Identify, evaluate and use relevant discipline tools and techniques
  5. Identify and evaluate relevant behaviours, principles and perspectives in the workplace
  6. Use reflective and deliberative thinking to generate plans for self-development
  7. Apply practice and discipline-based skills and knowledge to communicate solutions to real world problems
Topics covered
    • Introduction to Cyber Security
    • Bigger Issues in Cyber Security
    • Cyber Targets
    • Cyber Vulnerabilities
    • Cyber Threats
    • Risk Management
    • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
    • Basic Cyber Security Steps
    • Organisational Security Steps
    • Information Sharing
Entry requirements

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core
  • TAS-ATS-DIP-2021

Special requirements

No special requirements

Description

IT Security Management provides students with the foundations required to learn about cyberspace safety and security, and security management at the corporate level. This subject deals with management issues encountered as a result of deploying security countermeasures, policy and initiatives in organisational settings. Current and future issues relating to information technology security management will be explored in the subject. The key focus of this subject is on introducing students to IT security policy development and human security management.

Assessments

  • Engagement Task: Mind Map (0%%)
  • Engagement Task: Discussion Post (0%%)
  • Portfolio (35%%)
  • Fortnightly Online Quiz (15%%)
  • Group Report (50%%)
Textbooks

Related degrees

Undergraduate TAS-ATS-DIP-2021

Diploma of Applied Technologies

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