Current course offerings

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Course description

This is an introductory course covering key concepts and best practices in information security, and their application to the protection of organisation assets and business needs. It is designed for students from a broad range of backgrounds. It will include, but not be limited to topics such as; governance of information assets and ICT assets, develop understanding of business impact analysis of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets and ICT assets, risk management using preventative, detective and responsive controls to manage risk, access control of information and information processing facilities, authentication protocols such as; shared secrets, cryptographic hash functions and challenge-response protocols. Topic coverage may also include; using biometrics for authentication, introduction to applied cryptography in information security, network and wireless network security, physical security of information assets, HR security, securing the human, phishing and social engineering, payment card industry security, cloud computing security, industrial control systems and cooperative and automated vehicles.

Archived offerings