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IIK6530 - Cybersecurity

About

Lessons are not given in the academic year 2024/2025

Course content

  • Human, Organizational, and Regulatory Aspects of Cybersecurity: risk management; law, regulation, standards; privacy.
  • Attacks and Defenses: malware; adversarial behaviors; security operations; forensics.
  • Systems Security: cryptography; identity management & authentication; software security. Infrastructure Security: network security; cyber physical systems security; critical infrastructure security.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

  • Advanced knowledge of organizational and technological management of cybersecurity risk
  • In-depth knowledge of methods and frameworks for organizational and technological management of cybersecurity risk
  • Can apply the knowledge to relevant areas in own business
  • Can analyze relevant academic issues based on the subject area's history, traditions, uniqueness and place in society

Skills

  • Analyze and relate critically various sources of information and apply these to structure and formulate professional reasoning
  • Use existing theories, methods and interpretations within organizational and technological management of digital risk and independent work with practical and theoretical problem solving
  • Choose relevant methods for professional development work in an independent way.

General competence

  • Analyze relevant professional and ethical issues
  • Apply knowledge and skills in new areas to carry out advanced work tasks and projects
  • Can convey independent work and masters the subject area's forms of expression
  • Can communicate about professional issues, analyses and conclusions within the subject area, both with specialists and to the general public
  • Can follow up new thinking and innovation processes.

Learning methods and activities

The course consists of a startup physical gathering, an asynchronous online part based on recorded lectures, and a final mandatory assignment. It is planned that the students will work with issues that are related to their everyday work with a focus on technological and organizational challenges related to cybersecurity. In addition to this, students will also be expected to make a digital presentation and to carry out peer reviews of their fellow students' work.

Blackboard, NTNU's digital learning platform will be used throughout.

The entire course is normally completed in 10-12 weeks. The total workload for the participants is approx. 120 hours, including own work.

Further on evaluation

By means of a final mandatory assignment, to be carried out either individually or in small groups of students. Pass/Fail evaluation.

The submission deadline for the assignment is normally 3 weeks after the last learning activity. In the case of failure, the subject must be taken again in its entirety.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
- (IEIIKEVUH)

Course materials

  • Book: M.E. Whitman and H.J. Mattord: "Principles of Information Security", seventh edition, Cengage 2022.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From To
IIK6531 5.0 AUTUMN 2024
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Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  5.0 SP
Study level: Further education, higher degree level

Coursework

No

Language of instruction: English

Location: Gjøvik

Subject area(s)
  • Information Systems
  • Information Security
Contact information

Department with academic responsibility
Department of Information Security and Communication Technology

Department with administrative responsibility
Section for quality in education and learning environment