Cyber Security for Business
Overview
In this unit students are introduced to the approaches, technologies, and practices associated with cybersecurity in contemporary organisations. The unit engages students with the approaches and technologies applied by organisations to manage risks to their networks, applications and data from malicious attack from within the organisation itself and externally from malicious third parties. This includes the implementation of appropriate architectures, technologies as well as information management plans, risk analysis, threat and impact assessment, assurance processes, standards and frameworks. Students will learn about the legal, professional and ethical responsibilities of information risk and security management through industry-based scenarios and become familiar with approaches to information governance and assurance including the automated tools and approaches that are used by organisations.
Requisites
OR
COS20007 Object Oriented Programming
OR
INF20030 Cloud Approaches for Enterprise Systems
OR
INF10024 Business Digitalisation
OR
COS30043 Interface Design and Development
AND
100 cps
01-June-2025
08-June-2025
02-November-2025
08-February-2026
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Describe cyber security approaches, technologies and practices and their importance in achieving organisational goals and objectives
- Assess and apply information systems risk and security management standards and frameworks to real-word case based scenarios
- Analyse major theories, concepts and methodologies for managing the risks and assuring the integrity and security of information assets
- Evaluate governance, assurance and internal control frameworks and techniques for managing information risks and security
- Communicate effectively as a professional and function as an effective leader or member of a team
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-campus Class | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
| Online Lecture | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
| Unspecified Activities Independent Learning | 9.50 | 12 weeks | 114 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
OUA
| 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 1 | Individual | 20 - 30% | 1,2,5 |
| Assignment 2 | Group | 20 - 30% | 2,3,5 |
| Assignment 3 | Individual | 20 - 30% | 3,4,5 |
| Test | Individual | 20 - 40% | 1,2,3,4 |
Content
- The importance of cyber security to organisations
- An introduction to cyber security architecture, technologies, approaches and practices
- Cyber security management, governance and assurance
- The role of organisational policies, standards and processes in cyber security,
- Mitigating cyber security threats and incidents including incident management, business continuity, disaster recovery planning, forensic auditing and continuous monitoring
- Types of cyber security threats
- Compliance frameworks and legal, professional and ethical issues in cybersecurity
- Cyber security theories, concepts and methodologies
- The socio-technological dimensions (human and organisational factors) of organiasational cyber security
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.