Postgraduate - UnitFIT5163 - Information and computer security

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Information Technology
Offered	Caulfield Second semester 2012 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides students with in depth coverage of a range of security problems in information systems, namely physical security, network security and software security. Within these areas, topics covered include risk analysis, authentication, access control, and a range of cryptographic techniques. It looks at various management issues, including use and abuse of encryption, distributed systems authentication, contingency planning, auditing, logging and integrity management. A range of security applications are used as examples.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit students will:

have knowledge of risks, threats and the goals of information security;
understand various controls and their effectiveness for information security in an organisation;
be able to evaluate the effectiveness (both in terms of performance and limitations) of individual control techniques;
match the risk against controls and evaluate their applicability.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Nandita Bhattacharjee

Contact hours

2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs tutorials/wk

Prerequisites

Introductory knowledge of computing at the undergraduate level is assumed.

Prohibitions

FIT4016, CSE4892

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit5163/