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.

Media and other agencies report incidents of cyber attacks, some of these are labelled as acts of cyber terrorism, some of these may be or more often than not are mislabelled as such.

You should select a recent (since 2012) cyber attack event (in Australia or overseas) and investigate if this is a cyber terror attack or a simple mislabelling of the incident.

1500 words.

The 1500 word essay is a review of a known international cyber attack and what are the specific characteristics of it and does it fall within the ambient of cyber crime, information warfare or cyber terrorism and what makes it specifically differ from one of the other genres.

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 organisations plans do not extend to cyber terror attacks and in fact many staff would not know what form such an attack found take.

Given this ready reaction plans are a necessity, as well as staff awareness and training in what to do in the event of an attack.

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 cyber terrorism reaction plan allows students to explore the application of cyber security principals to a real world environment.

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.