Notice
As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group activities on campus, and most will keep an online version available to those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.
To check the availability of face-to-face and online activities for your unit, please go to timetable viewer. To check detailed information on unit assessments visit your unit's iLearn space or consult your unit convenor.
Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Leslie Bell
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MInfoTechCyberSec or GradCertInfoTech
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
COMP3320
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit has an online offering for S2 which is synchronous, meaning there will be set times to attend online lectures and tutorials. This unit provides a practical introduction to cyber security management. It tackles GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) and incident response. As such, it covers a range of topics including legal and ethical issues, human factor and security culture, legacy systems, security supply chain, regulatory frameworks and policy development, incident triage and business recovery. Effective communication to non-technical audiences plays also a key role in this unit. |
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
No extensions will be granted without an approved application for Special Consideration. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late. For example, 25 hours late in submission for an assignment worth 10 marks – 20% penalty or 2 marks deducted from the total.
Under no circumstances will submissions will be accepted after solutions have been posted.
Module Examinations will be scheduled during tutorial timeslots in weeks 5, 9 and 13, and will generally replace that week's tutorial. Your attention is drawn to the university's 'Fit to Sit' policy, which states that by commencing an examination you are certifying yourself as fit to sit that examination. In particular, if you commence a Module Examination late, with insufficient time to finish it, you will not be offered a Supplementary Examination. It is the responsibility of students to make sure that they are aware of the time at which the Module Exam will commence.
Applications for Supplementary Examinations under the Disruption to Studies Policy must be made via AskMQ. If this is approved, the Unit Convenor will attempt to schedule an examination at a time convenient to the student and will notify the student of the date and time of the examination in a timely fashion.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Module Examination 2 | 15% | No | Week 9 |
Module Examination 3 | 15% | No | Week 13 |
Assignment 2 | 15% | No | Week 13 |
Weekly discussion participation | 15% | No | Weekly |
Module Examination 1 | 15% | No | Week 5 |
Tutorial Tasks | 10% | No | Weekly |
Assignment 1 | 15% | No | Week 7 |
Assessment Type 1: Examination
Indicative Time on Task 2: 7 hours
Due: Week 9
Weighting: 15%
Module Examination 2
Assessment Type 1: Examination
Indicative Time on Task 2: 7 hours
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 15%
Module Examination 3
Assessment Type 1: Project
Indicative Time on Task 2: 7 hours
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 15%
Assignment 2
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Weekly
Weighting: 15%
Participation in weekly discussion (in both lectures and workshops) relating contemporary topics - privacy legislation, security breaches, regulatory changes, etc. - to the methdologies introduced in the lectures and workshops.
Assessment Type 1: Examination
Indicative Time on Task 2: 7 hours
Due: Week 5
Weighting: 15%
Module Examination 1
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 5 hours
Due: Weekly
Weighting: 10%
Tutorial Tasks
Assessment Type 1: Project
Indicative Time on Task 2: 7 hours
Due: Week 7
Weighting: 15%
Assignment 1
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Each lecture will require the student to read a provided text selected from a range of cyber security frameworks, Standards, textbooks, guides to best practice, blogs and other sources. Readings will be posted on iLearn and must be completed before the tutorial workshop, as the workshops are highly interactive.
A suggested (and highly recommended) textbook for cyber security studies generally is Smith, Richard E., Elementary Information Security, 3rd ed., Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2020.
Relevant international Standards have been purchased by the University Library and placed in Reserve for use by COMP3320/6325 students.
The lecture content of this unit will be delivered in the form of short videos elaborating on the concepts introduced in the readings. Guest lecturers and interview subjects will provide 'real-world' case studies and examples. There will be approximate two hours of lecture content each week, which students can view at their own pace.
Students will be expected to participate in weekly tutorial workshops, which will be offered in both on campus (face-to-face) and online (Zoom meeting) format.
Cyber security management is, in large part, about communicating threats and risks to business executives and understanding how to achieve the enterprise's goals while dealing with those threats and risks. Students should therefore expect to develop and make use of their speaking skills during the workshop sessions, and/or their writing skills during post-workshop discussions on iLearn. The importance of engaging in this is reflected in the allocation of 15% of the total assessment to these activities.
The unit comprises three major modules, each separately examinable.
Module 1: Governance and Compliance
Module 2 - Information Risk Management
Module 3 - Security Operations
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Unit information based on version 2021.03 of the Handbook