This ZEIT8032 Information Assurance Principles course is one of the core courses for Masters in Cybersecurity Operations (8629). It is also offered as an elective for other programs at UNSW Canberra. Additionally, we extend our offer to students in the Homeland Security Program at Arizona State University (ASU), who will enrol in this course as part of the PLuS Alliance (PLuS Alliance is a strategic alliance between ASU, UNSW and King’s College London, designed to help increase educational opportunities for students at each of the partner institutions by offering global experiences and opportunities for interacting and collaborating with global virtual teams. The PLuS online course exchange is an initiative among PLuS Alliance institutions that allows students from the three institutions to take online courses or modules offered at any one of the PLuS Alliance institutions.) online course exchange.
The aim of this course is to provide insights into modern cyber security threats and defensive controls and explore effective computer security and risk management strategies, with particular emphasis on Information Assurance (IA) practices and techniques.
The course provides a graduate-level foundation in IA for a diverse audience, from middle-level managers to executives. It caters to those with both non-technical and technical backgrounds, and those from a variety of government, commercial and non-for-profit organisations.
This course explores concepts such as layered defence mechanisms, use of several technologies in multiple instances (true defence in depth), threat/risk identification, and mitigation and incident response techniques.
It will enable executive-level managers to more fully understand the real-world challenges faced by their cyber security teams today. It will assist in developing the frameworks and policies, and in supporting the evidence-based decisions, that are required to allow teams to protect their environments efficiently. It will also increase understanding of the resulting costs and benefits.
It is a standard postgraduate course, available only through distance delivery mode, worth six units of credit (6 UOC) and requires 160 hrs of student study time. There are no prerequisites, but it is expected that enrolling students can: understand emerging technologies; explain specific technical terms; describe problems in technical and non- technical language.
