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DCSG1002 - Cyber security and teamwork

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Examination arrangement

Examination arrangement: Aggregate score
Grade: Passed / Not Passed

Evaluation Weighting Duration Grade deviation Examination aids
Assignment/thesis 50/100
Portfolio 50/100

Course content

  • Cyber security terminology and history.
  • Legal and ethical issues in cybersecurity.
  • Vulnerability in digital infrastructures.
  • Identities, authentication and authorization.
  • Human aspects of cybersecurity.
  • Basic threat profiling and risk analysis.
  • Future visions for a more secure digital society.
  • Team collaboration, team building and team development.
  • Work contract and conflict prevention.
  • Project as a form of work (establishment, implementation, administration and control)
  • Written and oral presentation

Learning outcome

Knowledge

  • K1: The candidate can explain how to establish and carry out projects
  • K2: The candidate can explain different models for team collaboration and team development
  • K3: The candidate can explain the most used concepts in cybersecurity and the subject's most important historical development
  • K4: The candidate can explain how vulnerabilities in digital infrastructures can arise and how the most common vulnerabilities can be counteracted

Skills

  • S1: The candidate can convey subject matter effectively orally and in writing, obtain information to shed light on issues, and safeguard copyright in their communication
  • S2: The candidate can carry out and document teamwork and reflect on their own professional practice and develop this based on feedback from others
  • S3: The candidate can carry out basic threat profiling and risk analysis
  • S4: The candidate can use tools to protect identities against common security attacks

General competence

  • G1: The candidate can plan and complete tasks in a team
  • G2: The candidate can give constructive feedback to others
  • G3: The candidate can explain societal vulnerability as a consequence of cybersecurity challenges

Sustainability

The course teaches fundamental knowledge regarding cybersecurity and teamwork and offers opportunities for enhancing practical skills in multiple directions. Hence, the course contributes to the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):

SDG 8 "Decent work and economic growth" by preparing students to acquire practical skills for decent work in the future.

SDG 9 "Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure" by preparing students to build and manage resilient digital infrastructures.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, teamwork with and without supervision, project work, problem solving individually and in groups, lab exercises.

A compulsory exercise/task at the beginning of the semester which is to carry out a mapping of one's own team role.

An optional exercise/task on sustainability and how it could be integrated into the project work or individual exercises

Compulsory assignments

  • Documents and compulsory attendance

Further on evaluation

The portfolio assessment consists of six submitted group works, which are delivered within the stated deadlines. Feedback and opportunities for improvement are provided. Final assessment after all work has been delivered.

The project is carried out in groups. The assessment basis is the group's final report.

Different grades can be assigned to the group members.

Both the project assignment and the portfolio assessment must be passed in order to get "pass" as the final grade of the course.

Continuation and voluntary repetition: at the next regular implementation. Both the project assignment and the portfolio assessment must be re-taken.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Digital Infrastructure and Cyber Security (BDIGSEC)

Required previous knowledge

Needs attendance within the Bachelor program of study in Digital infrastructure and cybersecurity

Course materials

Cybersecurity

Main textbook:

Digital sikkerhet - En innføring, H. Bergsjø, R. Windvik & L. Øverlier, 2020

Additional textbooks:

Datasikkerhet for ledere, Bergsjø, Windvik, 2018

Principles of Information Security, Whitman, Mattord, 6th Edition, 2017

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From To
IDRI1002 3.7 AUTUMN 2019
IMT1003 3.7 AUTUMN 2019
IIKG1001 2.5 AUTUMN 2019
DCST1002 7.5 AUTUMN 2019
IIKG3000 5.0 AUTUMN 2021
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Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  7.5 SP
Study level: Foundation courses, level I

Coursework

Term no.: 1
Teaching semester:  AUTUMN 2024

Language of instruction: English

Location: Gjøvik

Subject area(s)
  • Information Security
Contact information
Course coordinator: Lecturer(s):

Department with academic responsibility
Department of Information Security and Communication Technology

Timetable

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Examination

Examination arrangement: Aggregate score

Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
Autumn ORD Portfolio 50/100

Release
2024-11-13

Submission
2024-11-22


10:00


10:00

INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
Autumn ORD Assignment/thesis 50/100

Release
2024-11-13

Submission
2024-11-22


10:00


10:00

INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
Examination

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