Cybersecurity Operations Management
Overview
Cybersecurity of an organisation concerns all stakeholders, employees and customers. This unit focuses on the management of resources and aims to develop and refine skills in stakeholder management and communications. Students will use a variety of methods to research communication protocols, cybersecurity principles, recovery and mitigation strategies Students will use the frameworks that relate to information sharing and develop strategies for whole of organisation cybersecurity management. Some of the topics include communication protocols and strategies, security audits, security program development, incident handling, maturity models data governance, third party and supply chain risk.
Requisites
09-June-2024
09-February-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Explain cybersecurity imperatives and implications to principle decision makers in an organisation
- Critically evaluate the cybersecurity culture of an organisation
- Analyse cybersecurity framework for an organisation against industry best practice
- Examine the cybersecurity implications of the internet in relation to an organisation and the implications to business continuity
- Examine and refine business continuity and disaster recovery plans and strategies as they relate to cybersecurity
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Class | 3.00 | 12 weeks | 36 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Independent Learning | 9.50 | 12 weeks | 114 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
Swinburne Online
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12.50 | 12 weeks | 150 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Individual | 50 - 60% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
| Project | Individual | 40 - 50% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
Content
- Implementing and managing effective cybersecurity across an organisation, with respect to scale and nature of the business comparative to industry best practice
- Conducting security audits
- Security program development for technical and non-technical, particularly frontline staff
- Incident handling and developing business continuity plans and disaster recovery
- Security strategy and policy formulation and implementation across an organisation
- Information-sharing and the privacy, and compliance and ethical issues for business
- Cybersecurity maturity model
- Governance: data, organisation, policy impact
- Cloud frameworks
- Disaster recovery
- Third party risk – supply chain implications
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Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.