This assessment is concerned with all unit learning outcomes.

Your postings to the online discussions should reflect an understanding of your own context and the course material. You should bring in related thoughts and material, readings or questions that occur to you throughout the discussion.

You are required to complete the core readings for each module, reflect upon the readings and to then share your reflections on the readings with course colleagues through online postings and (for internal students) during the on-campus sessions.

Your postings should advance the group's negotiation of ideas and meanings about the material. Some ways you can further discussions include:

• expressing ideas or observations - where possible support them by more than personal opinion or anecdotal evidence;
• making a connection between the current discussion and previous discussion, personal experience or readings;
• commenting on or expanding another student’s statement;
• posting a substantive question aimed at furthering the group’s understanding.

Please keep your posts brief! One or two paragraphs is sufficient. If citing course readings, in text references are sufficient. For additional references (if applicable), please provide a bibliographic reference at the end of your post.

For a posting to be counted for a given week, it must be entered by midnight on the Sunday of that week’s activity.  If they are entered later than this, they will not be counted.

In some instances an online quiz may be provided for a week in lieu.

Internal students will follow the same assessment framework within the class each week.

A mark for the discussions will be awarded on the basis of:

1. Your participation in the discussions (40%)
2. The essence of your contributions (60%)

In assessing your contributions the following categories will be used:

• Level 1 - Postings providing a single point of view;
• Level 2 - Postings which make reference to other contexts or course material;
• Level 3 - Postings which offer a critical reflection on theoretical perspectives and/or practical experiences.

CIA is the underlying concept of providing uninterrupted, continuous and reliable access to information resources. Critically examine the CIA concept identifying the strengths and weaknesses of it and compare and contrast it against other similar models.

1500 words.

A detailed marking matrix is available to all enrolled students on the unit iLearn site.

Marking criteria in the marking matrix includes evaluation of topic comprehension, argument, written expression, referencing, essay structure and organisation.

Prevention and or early detection are better than a cure in most situations. Many agencies have disaster recovery and other contingency plans. However many are out of date or have never been tested and many need to be updated.

Given this it is important for every organisation to have as part of the Business Continuity Plan a Disaster recovery Plan for their Information Infrastructure.  A plan needs to be able to cater for Hardware, Software and Network failures, be they accidental or deliberate.

There are many IT based preventive plan templates available from the internet from known IT security agencies such as ISC².

3500 words.

The 3500 word disaster recovery plan allows students to explore the application of cyber security principals to a real world organisation.

A scenario will be provided to students later in the Session.

A detailed marking matrix is available to all enrolled students on the unit iLearn site.

Marking criteria in the marking matrix includes evaluation of topic comprehension, written expression, referencing, plan and orders structure and organisation and workability.

Note:

The plan is to include notes and referencing at the end of the document and not within the main body.