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Course unit details:
Systems Governance
Unit code | COMP60721 |
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Credit rating | 15 |
Unit level | FHEQ level 7 – master's degree or fourth year of an integrated master's degree |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
Available as a free choice unit? | Yes |
Overview
IT governance is the framework that takes creative information systems from ideas to successful business tools. It's a toolbox of measures for taking the responsibility to build secure architectures that meet the exacting standards of today's budgets and the regulatory environment. Technology meets leadership meets design meets human factors meets compliance.
Aims
This course unit covers the coordination of business decision making for the assurance of information. It concentrates how business responsibilities consider security in strategy, acquisition, performance, conformance, and human behaviour.
Learning outcomes
- Apply analytical techniques to steer a community out of a cyber security incident.
Be able to work in a team to resolve differing viewpoints to create a governance portfolio.
Apply structured governance techniques to acquire IT systems with security built in.
Comprehend the importance of leadership and the balance of decision rights and escalation paths whether that is between people or machines.
Be able to specify a security architecture and evaluate for vulnerabilities.
Be able to identify and select appropriate metrics to monitor the security of an information system.
Syllabus
- Security RACI - Responsibility, Accountability, Consulted and Informed
- Leadership
- Managing investments
- IT and audit working together
- Strategic security
- Risk management
- Information security
- Implementation roadmap
- Architectures
- Security during acquisition
- The business case
- Supplier governance
- Performance of security measures
- Capability assessment
- IT service continuity
- Performance measurement
- Conformance of information systems to security obligations
- Legal and regulatory aspects
- Managing the human behaviour affecting the security of information systems
- Communications
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures
70% of contact time will be lectures.
Laboratories
30% of contact time will be group work in the lab.
Employability skills
- Analytical skills
- Group/team working
- Innovation/creativity
- Leadership
- Project management
- Oral communication
- Problem solving
- Research
- Written communication
Assessment methods
Method | Weight |
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Written assignment (inc essay) | 100% |
Feedback methods
This is an interactive module with in-class sessions and an on-line discussion board that operates through the week to keep up the pace between contact days.
Study hours
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 150 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Daniel Dresner | Unit coordinator |