CYB814 – Case Studies of Management Practice in Cybersecurity
In their final term, students will be ready to synthesise what they’ve learned in previous units to tackle complex, real-world cases. This unit presents a series of case studies to transport students from the classroom to the real-world context where they will confront management practice challenges in cybersecurity. The teaching cases will provoke robust student-led discussions that will disentangle complex cybersecurity management concepts and instil confidence and critical thinking in students, and encourage them to express their own ideas. Teaching cases have been selected to address a wide range of management challenges and expose key risks that organisations face today. These include the risks of adopting a compliance culture, fragmentation in organisational structures, poor decision-making, inadequate skills and experience, and misperceptions about the role of the cybersecurity function.
Learning Outcomes:
- Critically analyse cybersecurity issues relating to the evolving strategic and operational context of organisations, IT systems and communication networks
- Critically review cybersecurity-related people, process and technology challenges to real-world organisations
- Discuss and critically reflect on how cybersecurity protects the business function of the organisation through the application of strategy, risk, policy, training, governance, and culture
- Discuss and critically reflect on how cybersecurity protects information and knowledge in the context of organisations
- Discuss and critically reflect on how cybersecurity addresses a range of threats both purposive and incidental, spanning technology, process, people, and information
- Discuss and critically reflect on how cybersecurity in organisations is essentially a people problem that has some technology solutions