Cybersecurity Operations Management
Overview
Cyber security 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, cyber security principles, recovery and mitigation strategies.
Students will use the frameworks that relate to information sharing and develop strategies for whole of organisation cyber security 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-February-2025
05-October-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Explain cyber security imperatives and implications to principle decision makers in an organisation
- Critically evaluate the cyber security culture of an organisation
- Analyse cyber security framework for an organisation against industry best practice
- Examine the cyber security 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 cyber security
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 cyber security 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, compliance and ethical issues for business
- Cyber security maturity model
- Governance: data, organisation, policy impact
- Cloud frameworks
- Disaster recovery
- Third party risk – supply chain implications
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.