Course

Security Engineering Professional Practice - COMP6449

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Computer Science and Engineering

Course Outline: School

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: COMP6441 or COMP6841 or COMP3441

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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Description

The professional practice of cyber security. Students learn how to be effective and ethical cyber security professionals.

Students from this course will engage in real world case studies and analyse and critique effective professional responses to situations and challenges. Guest lecturers from Industry will give a number of different views into the world of cyber security professionals , the key issues they face, and current best practice.

Coverage includes Standards, Audits, Organisational Analysis and Testing, Best Practice, Ethics, Legal, Professionalism. Professional issues and best practice in cybercrime, censorship terrorism, IP, mandatory data breech disclosure, privacy, risk assessment, institutional response to risk, leadership, organisational change management and culture change, Professional Practice and professionalism. Course coverage will be regularly updated over time to reflect emerging best practice in the security engineering profession.
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