Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Cyber Security Governance Risk and Compliance Management

Credit Points: 12.00

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
ISYS3439	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Internet	JanJun2022 (All)
ISYS3439	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Internet	JulDec2022 (All)
ISYS3439	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Internet	JanJun2023 (All)
ISYS3439	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Internet	JulDec2023 (All)
ISYS3439	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Internet	JulDec2024 (All)
ISYS3439	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Internet	JanJun2025 (All)
ISYS3439	City Campus	Postgraduate	665H Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain	Internet	JulDec2025 (All)

Course Coordinator: Dr Abebe Diro

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 4132

Course Coordinator Email: abebe.diro3@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Building 80

Course Coordinator Availability: Appointment via email

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Required Prior Study:

Course ID 054347 Fundamentals of Cyber Security

Course Description

Understanding cyber security governance and risk is crucial to developing and maintaining cyber security in organisations in an age of increasing cyber threats and attacks. Cyber security governance enables organisations to develop and formulate strategies for risk and compliance management, and to respond to cyber security threats in an orderly and efficient manner.

This course builds the understanding of cyber security governance, risk and compliance (GRC) requirements and explores current and emerging cyber security GRC management practices and processes. You will evaluate risk management concepts, principles and key legal, regulatory and compliance frameworks for application in organisational contexts. You will assess and quantify cyber security risks and apply modelling to evaluate threats, and vulnerabilities. You will also develop risk mitigation strategies, policies, standards and procedures for risk metrics, operational management and board reporting.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

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Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:

1. Apply cybersecurity strategies, policies, and organisational structure to protect business information assets.
2. Apply a risk management approaches to assess and quantify organisational exposure to cyber risk.
3. Critically evaluate key legal, regulatory and compliance frameworks for application to organisational needs in cyber security risk management.
4. Analyse cybersecurity governance frameworks and standards to assess security maturity in business contexts.
5. Evaluate and develop cybersecurity program, security metrics and reporting in cybersecurity governance.

 

Overview of Learning Activities

This online course uses highly structured learning activities to guide your learning process and prepare you for your assessments. The activities are a combination of individual, peer-supported and facilitator-guided activities, and where possible project-led, with opportunities for feedback throughout.

Authentic and industry-relevant learning is critical to this course and you will be encouraged to critically compare and contrast what is happening in your context and in industry, and to use your insights.

Social learning is another important component and you are expected to participate in class and group activities, share drafts of work and resources and give and receive peer feedback. You will be expected to work efficiently and effectively with others to achieve outcomes greater than those that you might have achieved alone.

The learning activities enable you to understand course learning resources and apply that learning to improve your own practice, for example by producing real-world artefacts and engaging in scenarios and case studies.

Overview of Learning Resources

Each learning activity contains the core resources, such as videos, podcasts, readings, templates, articles, industry tools and/or communities that you need to complete that activity, or links to those resources.

Additional learning resources designed into the course, will be clearly marked as supplemental. If your course teaching team finds additional resources during course delivery which they think can support or be of interest to the class cohort, these will be made available as required during the teaching period.

In your class environment, besides your learning activities you will also find:

• All assessment briefs.
• A course information page with a study schedule.
• Various communication tools to facilitate collaboration with your peers and facilitators, and to share information.

Learning Resources are also available online through RMITLibrary databases, subject guides, and other facilities.

Assistance with referencing, study support, finding computers and study spaces is available at the RMIT library Study website. If you require assistance with the RMIT library facilities contact Ask the Library.

Overview of Assessment

The assessment alignment list below shows the assessment tasks against the learning outcomes they develop.

Assessment Task 1: 30%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2

Assessment Task 2: 30%
Linked CLOs: 2, 3, 4

Assessment Task 3: 40%
Linked CLOs: 4, 5

Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or in online forums through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual consultation.