Cybersecurity: the people and organisation
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 150 contact hours - Swinburne Online
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2023 teaching periods
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
75 Credit PointsAims and objectives
This unit provides a broad understanding of managing cybersecurity 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.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Demonstrate coherent and advanced knowledge of managerial functions of planning, organising, leading and controlling across the organisation in diverse and complex environments
2. Critically analyse the relevance of Human Capital Management (HCM) in the strategic management of specialised cybersecurity staff
3. Critically analyse the strategic priorities associated with managing security in a complex business environment
4. Work collaboratively as a member or leader of a team and/or with stakeholders and implement methods for optimising collaboration
2. Critically analyse the relevance of Human Capital Management (HCM) in the strategic management of specialised cybersecurity staff
3. Critically analyse the strategic priorities associated with managing security in a complex business environment
4. Work collaboratively as a member or leader of a team and/or with stakeholders and implement methods for optimising collaboration
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12.5 | 12 | 150 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual/Group Role | Weighting | Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) |
| Assignment | Individual | 15-25% | 1,2,3 |
| Assignment | Group | 35-45% | 1,2,3,4 |
| Project | Individual | 30-50% | 1,2,4 |
Content
• Human capital management
• Cybersecurity workforce planning, recruitment and retention
• Cultural change management
• The Human Resources (HR) value proposition in knowledge creation practices
• Contemporary Issues in HCA (such as organisational change and restructuring, corporate social responsibility, ethical corporate governance, impact of technology on 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
• Cybersecurity workforce planning, recruitment and retention
• Cultural change management
• The Human Resources (HR) value proposition in knowledge creation practices
• Contemporary Issues in HCA (such as organisational change and restructuring, corporate social responsibility, ethical corporate governance, impact of technology on 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.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required texts will be made available in the Unit Outline.