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Protective Security
Postgraduate | TAS-HSP601 | 2022
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
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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
- 1. Introduction to Security Risk Management
- 2. Threat and Vulnerability assessment
- 3. Risk Assessment
- 4. Selection of Controls
- 5. Implementation of Controls
- 6. Training and Exercising
- 7. Assurance
- 8. Governance
- 9. Continuous Improvement
- 10. Activation
- 11. Shared Pillars
- 12. Shared Perspectives
- 13. 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 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 theoretical concepts in Protective Security into tangible outputs for industry. This Protective Security subject provides you with an understanding and the requisite skills that will be interrelated with other subjects should you proceed further with your postgraduate studies in organisational resilience.
- Position paper (30%)
- Multiple Choice Quiz (20%)
- Report (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-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Organisational Resilience
Elective
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2022 - Postgraduate Single Subjects
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
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
PostgraduateTAS-ORG-GCE
PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE