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LocationDomesticInternational
Gold Coast
Term2
Term2

Unit description

Provides students with fundamental and vendor-neutral cybersecurity knowledge and skills. Students will learn about assessing, planning for and controlling cyber risks in complex systems like Internet of Things (IoT) in smart environments. Students will also examine national and international cybersecurity laws, regulations as well as issues related to ethics and privacy.

Unit content

Module 1: Cyber risk management and controls
Module 2: Advanced cyber risk control for smart environments
Module 3: Cybersecurity planning, modelling and testing
Module 4: State-of-the-art threat hunting and intelligence techniques
Module 5: Principles of digital forensics and incident response 
Module 6: Cybersecurity compliance, ethics and laws for smart environments

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1determine and critically assess cyber threats and risks to smart environments and propose appropriate measures to be taken.
2develop comprehensive cyber security plans and policies for organisations, complex systems, and smart environments.
3evaluate and contextualise the contemporary ethical and legal issues associated with securing smart environments.
4examine incident response programs to reinstate operations following the successful attack of a smart environment system.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. determine and critically assess cyber threats and risks to smart environments and propose appropriate measures to be taken.
  2. develop comprehensive cyber security plans and policies for organisations, complex systems, and smart environments.
  3. evaluate and contextualise the contemporary ethical and legal issues associated with securing smart environments.
  4. examine incident response programs to reinstate operations following the successful attack of a smart environment system.

Prescribed Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.
Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method
Workshop 1 hour (weekly)
Tutorial 2 hours (weekly)
Assessment
Critical review30%
Case study50%
Presentation20%
Notice

Intensive offerings may or may not be scheduled in every teaching period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

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Fee information

Domestic

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