Cybersecurity: the people and organisation
Overview
This unit provides an advanced understanding of managing cyber security and its significance in enabling organisations to operate effectively within a fast paced, increasingly complex and diverse global environment. The management role will be examined from the perspective of direction-setting, decision-making and strategic planning; the organising role covering structure and design, communications and information technology, human resource management and the management of change and innovation; the leadership role covering the basics of organisational behaviour, group and team dynamics, motivation and leadership styles; and the controlling or performance management function introducing operations and value chain management within a specialised workforce.
Requisites
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Demonstrate coherent and advanced knowledge of managerial functions of planning, organising, leading and controlling across the organisation in diverse and complex environments
- Critically analyse the relevance of Human Capital Management (HCM) in the strategic management of specialised cyber security staff
- Critically analyse the strategic priorities associated with managing security in a complex business environment
- Work collaboratively as a member or leader of a team and/or with stakeholders and implement methods for optimising collaboration
Teaching methods
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 | 15 - 25% | 1,2,3 |
| Assignment | Group | 35 - 45% | 1,2,3,4 |
| Project | Individual | 30 - 50% | 1,2,3 |
Content
- Human capital management
- Cyber security workforce planning, recruitment and retention
- Cultural change management
- The Human Resources (HR) value proposition in knowledge creation practices
- Contemporary Issues in Human Capital Analytics (HCA) (such as organisational change and restructuring, corporate social responsibility, ethical corporate governance, impact of technology on Human Capital Management (HCM), sustainability management, job redesign, and the implementation of new organisational forms such as cross border alliances
- Strategic Employee Relations and Human Capital Analytics (HCA)
- Understand the components of an effective information security program and align them with the organisation needs
- Creating a security culture within an organisation for employees to comply with
- Identifying insider threats
- Leveraging human behaviour to reduce organisational risk
- Social engineering
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.