Protective Security
PostgraduateTAS-HSP6012025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $2,894
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Protective Security
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Comprehend and analyse theoretical approaches to protective security.
- Synthesise and apply relevant theoretical perspectives and concepts to provide solutions for protective security.
- Produce written work on protective security that is clearly communicated and meets scholarly and industry requirements.
- Introduction to Security Risk Management.
- Threat and Vulnerability Assessment.
- Risk Assessment.
- Selection of Controls.
- Implementation of Controls.
- Training and Exercising.
- Assurance.
- Governance.
- Continuous Improvement.
- Activation - Parts 1, 2.
- Security Approaches.
- Organisational Interconnectedness.
Protective Security relates to security governance (including supporting a positive security culture), information security (including cyber security), personnel security (including employees and contractors) and physical security (providing a safe and secure physical environment for an organisation’s people, information and assets). This fully online subject provides you with a thorough understanding of the concepts and practical applications of Protective Security. You will gain an appreciation of the issues and elements that underlie the practice of Protective Security and draw upon theoretical concepts, real life case studies and relevant standards.
This subject will provide you with the knowledge and skills to translate and communicate theoretical concepts in Protective Security into tangible outputs for industry. This subject, together with crisis management, business continuity management, and the ability to lead resilient organisations, are collectively the underpinning foundation for enhancing organisational resilience. The subject provides you with an understanding and the requisite skills that will be interrelated with these subjects should you proceed further with your postgraduate studies in organisational resilience.
- Write a 1,500 word discussion paper on a corporate security risk. (30%)
- Online Quiz (20%)
- Write a 2,500 word report on enhancing a strong security culture and implications for protective security governance. (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-ORG-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Organisational Resilience
Elective
- TAS-ADP-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Advanced Practice
- TAS-AQS-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
- TAS-CDP-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
- TAS-APD-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
- TAS-ADH-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
- TAS-APG-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Governance)
- TAS-AHE-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
- TAS-HSI-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
- TAS-APH-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
- TAS-AMS-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
- TAS-AOP-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
- TAS-AOR-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
- TAS-ASC-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Strategic Communication)
- TAS-SCL-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
- TAS-AWP-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
- TAS-AQS-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
- TAS-CDP-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
- TAS-APD-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
- TAS-ADH-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
- TAS-APG-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
- TAS-AHE-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
- TAS-HSI-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
- TAS-APH-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
- TAS-AMS-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
- TAS-AOP-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
- TAS-AOR-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
- TAS-ASC-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Strategic Communication)
- TAS-SCL-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
- TAS-AWP-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Weekly online practitioner insight video lectures (1 hour). Weekly reading (3 hours ). Optional online zoom discussion (1.5 hours - 3 times per semester)
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Organisational Resilience
PostgraduateTAS-ORG-GCE
Graduate Certificate in Advanced Practice
PostgraduateTAS-ADP-GCE
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
PostgraduateTAS-AQS-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
PostgraduateTAS-CDP-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
PostgraduateTAS-APD-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
PostgraduateTAS-ADH-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Governance)
PostgraduateTAS-APG-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
PostgraduateTAS-AHE-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
PostgraduateTAS-HSI-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
PostgraduateTAS-APH-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
PostgraduateTAS-AMS-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
PostgraduateTAS-AOP-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
PostgraduateTAS-AOR-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Strategic Communication)
PostgraduateTAS-ASC-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
PostgraduateTAS-SCL-GDI
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
PostgraduateTAS-AWP-GDI
Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
PostgraduateTAS-AQS-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
PostgraduateTAS-CDP-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
PostgraduateTAS-APD-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
PostgraduateTAS-ADH-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
PostgraduateTAS-APG-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
PostgraduateTAS-AHE-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
PostgraduateTAS-HSI-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
PostgraduateTAS-APH-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
PostgraduateTAS-AMS-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
PostgraduateTAS-AOP-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
PostgraduateTAS-AOR-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Strategic Communication)
PostgraduateTAS-ASC-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
PostgraduateTAS-SCL-MAS
Master of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
PostgraduateTAS-AWP-MAS