Monash University

Leader: Maria Indrawan

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

This is the primary introductory unit for the IT security major in the BITS. This provides students with grounding in general areas of security to support the major. This is a feeder unit into the selected security units in the major. It combines some of the topics from IMS3110, MMS1002 and BUS2050 but does not replace these units.

Objectives

At the completion of this subject students should have knowledge and understanding and be able to analyse:

1. The importance of information systems security issues to contemporary organisations;
2. Information security concepts and philosophies;
3. Threats, vulnerabilities and risks to an organisations' information assets and the control technologies and techniques required to support this;
4. Understanding of the mathematical foundation of cryptoanalysis;
5. The ethical, legal and criminal issues relating to the security of information systems;
6. Evalute current and future developments and trends in security control technologies and techniques;
7. the relevance of human factors to information security planning and management.

At the completion of this subject students should have developed attitudes which allow them to:

1. Adopt a critical approach to the analysis and design of information systems security systems;
2. Willingness to apply ethical standards of security issues;
3. Demonstrate ethically sound viewpoints with respect to the protection of information resources while maintaining a secure IS framework, specifically related to (but not limited to) the goals of security such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability, in the professional development of information systems;
4. cooperate within groups and adopt and practise professional ethics that influence work behaviour.

At the completion of this subject students should have the skills to:

1. Apply information security concepts in the analysis of information systems security issues;
2. Apply risk management techniques to the planning and management of information systems security systems;
3. Apply security analysis and design methods and techniques in the analysis of threats, risk and vulnerabilities to an information system;
4. Apply the security concept in securing information systems by exploring the security mechanism available in the operating systems environment.

Students may be required to work in teams to complete some of the assessment and thus must develop appropriate interpersonal communication and leadership skills.

Assessment

Assignments: 40%
Formal supervised assessment 50%
Presentations: 10%

Contact hours

Lecture/seminar: 2hrs/week, tutorial: 1hr/week