Requirements to Pass this Unit

To pass this unit you must achieve a total mark equal to or greater than 50%

Assessment task release dates

ALL assessment tasks details and their due dates are available on iLearn from Week 00.

Late Assessment Submission

Late assessments are not accepted in this unit unless a Special Consideration has been submitted and approved.

Special Consideration

The Special Consideration Policy aims to support students who have been impacted by short-term circumstances or events that are serious, unavoidable and significantly disruptive, and which may affect their performance in assessment.

Written Assessments: If you experience circumstances or events that affect your ability to complete the written assessments in this unit on time, please inform the convenor and submit a Special Consideration request through ask.mq.edu.au.

Weekly practice-based tasks: To pass the unit you need to demonstrate ongoing development of skills and application of knowledge in all the weekly practical classes. If you miss a weekly practical lass due to a serious, unavoidable and significant disruption, contact your convenor ASAP and the other members of your practical group. 

Note that a Special Consideration should only be applied for if you miss more than two of the weekly practical classes.

This unit is delivered face-to-face, although the lectures are recorded and available on iLearn.

The practical tasks start in Week 01 and builds, week upon week, to a single deliverable assessed on the Saturday of Week 13 by a panel of Industry Experts.  The work undertaken on the practical task and its deliverable is usually undertaken by students, sometimes working in groups, off-campus at a time and location that suits them.

Each week, based on the lecture and workshop materials provided, you will gradually build an Information Security Management System (ISMS) that used the ISO/IEC:27001 standards as the framework.  In Week 05, the documentation you created to date will be reviewed by the Unit Convenor and, if significant changes are required, you will work with the Unit Convenor to modify what you are doing and how you are doing it.  In Week 08, the documentation created to date as a group will be reviewed by the Unit Convenor and, if significant changes are required, you will work with the Unit Convenor to modify what you are doing and how you are doing it.

This unit is very heavily front-loaded, that means that the first five weeks require significant individual work to ensure that you are able to produce the documents required for the Week 13 presentation.  The work undertaken from Week 06 is group-assessed and creates fundamental components for the Week 13 presentation.

Methods of Communication

We will communicate with you via your university email and through announcements on iLearn. Queries to convenors can either be placed on the iLearn discussion board or sent to the unit convenor via the contact email on iLearn.

The unit is divided into three modules, Governance (Weeks 01-03), Risk (Weeks 04-08) and Operations (Weeks 09-12).

1. Introduction
2. Standards & Governance
3. ISMS
4. Information Classification
5. Risk Management
6. Qualitative Risk
7. Quantitative Risk
8. Loss Calculations
9. Threats and Controls
10. BCP/DRP
11. Incident Management
12. Forensics
13. Industry Panel preparation

We value student feedback to be able to continually improve the way we offer our units. As such we encourage students to provide constructive feedback via student surveys, to the teaching staff directly, or via the FSE Student Experience & Feedback link in the iLearn page. Student feedback from the previous offering of this unit was very positive overall, with students pleased with the clarity around assessment requirements and the level of support from teaching staff.

To meet the requirements of the University's introduction of the 3AM assessment framework, all assessment tasks were altered and now comprise a review of individual workbook and documents, a review of group-created documents and a Q&A conducted by an external panel of Industry Experts.