IT Security Management
UndergraduateTAS-ZAT1152022
Course information for 2022 intake
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 10 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
IT Security Management
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Apply information security and risk standards and IT security baselines to a given context
- Analyse and report on information technology security management issues and emergent trends
- Demonstrate an understanding of the current legal and ethical positions that relate to information technology security management issues
- Identify, evaluate and use relevant discipline tools and techniques
- Identify and evaluate relevant behaviours, principles and perspectives in the workplace
- Use reflective and deliberative thinking to generate plans for self-development
- Apply practice and discipline-based skills and knowledge to communicate solutions to real world problems
- 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
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.
- Engagement Task: Mind Map (0%)
- Engagement Task: Discussion Post (0%)
- Portfolio (35%)
- Fortnightly Online Quiz (15%)
- Group Report (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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