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AIWSU7015 - Applied Cybersecurity
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Information Technology
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<p>This subject covers the current approaches, technologies, and applied practices pertinent to cybersecurity and helps the student to understand important related protocols and standards. It describes the features needed for the mitigation of cyber vulnerabilities for improving the reliability of the underlying systems, privacy preservation, and achieving protections against cybercrime and internet fraud. It also examines the basics of ethical hacking, network assurance, cyber risk management, and incident analysis. The subject discusses the trends in applied cybersecurity and introduces some of the relevant current key research issues and features of the field.</p>
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<p>• Applied Cybersecurity: Overview</p>
<p>• Applied Cybersecurity: Concepts, Threats, and Fundamental Solutions</p>
<p>• Cybercrime and Digital Forensics</p>
<p>• Cyber Incident Detection, Analysis, and Recovery</p>
<p>• Ethical Hacking</p>
<p>• Cyber Identification and Authentication</p>
<p>• Applied Software and Web Security</p>
<p>• Cybersecurity: Cloud, Mobile, and Wireless Environments</p>
<p>• Cyber Assurance and Risk Management</p>
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<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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Unit description
<p>This subject covers the current approaches, technologies, and applied practices pertinent to cybersecurity and helps the student to understand important related protocols and standards. It describes the features needed for the mitigation of cyber vulnerabilities for improving the reliability of the underlying systems, privacy preservation, and achieving protections against cybercrime and internet fraud. It also examines the basics of ethical hacking, network assurance, cyber risk management, and incident analysis. The subject discusses the trends in applied cybersecurity and introduces some of the relevant current key research issues and features of the field.</p>
Unit content
<p>• Applied Cybersecurity: Overview</p> <p>• Applied Cybersecurity: Concepts, Threats, and Fundamental Solutions</p> <p>• Cybercrime and Digital Forensics</p> <p>• Cyber Incident Detection, Analysis, and Recovery</p> <p>• Ethical Hacking</p> <p>• Cyber Identification and Authentication</p> <p>• Applied Software and Web Security</p> <p>• Cybersecurity: Cloud, Mobile, and Wireless Environments</p> <p>• Cyber Assurance and Risk Management</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability
Discipline:
Information Technology
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
029999 - Information Technology, n.e.c.
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/aiwsu7015">View unit fees</a>
Requisites
Prerequisite
<p> must have completed <a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=AIWSU7013" target="_blank">AIWSU7013</a></p>
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Exclusion
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Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
<p>On successful completion of this unit, students are expected to gain the following [K]nowledge, [S]kills and [A]pplication of knowledge & skills</p>
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<p>Describe the fundamental concepts of applied cybersecurity</p>
K2
<p>Identify cybersecurity threats and the services applied to combat them</p>
K3
<p>Explain cybersecurity technologies and practices</p>
K4
<p>Explain key research issues in applied cybersecurity</p>
S1
<p>Analyse and describe the advantages and shortcomings of the more commonly applied cybersecurity approaches</p>
A1
<p>Discuss the trends in cybersecurity</p>
Assessment
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Learning outcomes assessed
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<p>2 hours practical </p>
<p>Practical</p>
<p>20%</p>
K1, K2, K4, S1, A1
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<p>2 hours final exam</p>
<p>Final Exam</p>
<p>50%</p>
K1, K2, K4, S1, A1
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<p>4,000 words and 10 minutes report</p>
<p>Report</p>
<p>30%</p>
K3, K4
Supplementary assessment available:
Yes
Supplementary assessment information:
<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability
Discipline:
Information Technology
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
029999 - Information Technology, n.e.c.
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/aiwsu7015">View unit fees</a>
Additional information
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Internal reference: AIWSU7015 - U1.1