COIT11241 - Cyber Security Technologies

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Cyber security professionals need to create, analyse and test computer systems and networks to assure they will operate in the presence of attacks. In this unit, you will learn the types of attacks that may be encountered and the tools and techniques to prevent, detect and respond to those attacks. You will build your skills in virtualisation, cloud services and scripting to solve cyber security challenges. You will also learn special cyber security tools for detecting vulnerabilities, monitoring network traffic and responding to attacks.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites Pre-Requisites: COIT11238 Networked Infrastructure Foundations AND COIT11222 Programming Fundamentals.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

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This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 78.57% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 36.84% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Student Evaluations and Teaching Team Reflections
Feedback
The unit requirements are unclear.
Recommendation
More detailed steps will be included in the assessments and tutorial exercises will be created to help students understand the assessment requirements.
Action Taken
Additional tutorial exercises were created to help with the assessments.
Source: Teaching Team Reflections
Feedback
The unit covers too many topics.
Recommendation
The topics covered by the unit will be reduced. For example, advanced topics such as Metasploit will be removed.
Action Taken
Topics such as Metasploit and Wazuh were removed.
Source: Teaching Team Reflections
Feedback
Windows virtual machines and Wazuh are difficult to use on computers with less than 16Gbytes of RAM and 30Gbytes of free hard drive space.
Recommendation
Additional information about the hardware requirements for a machine that can handle simultaneous virtual machines will be added to the eUnit profile and unit materials. Troubleshooting support will also be added to the tutorials.
Action Taken
Additional instructions were provided for running simultaneous VMs. Wazuh was removed from the unit to ease the burden on students' virtual machines.
Source: Student Evaluations and Teaching Team Reflections
Feedback
Students appreciate learning real world skills.
Recommendation
Continue to cover tools such as Kali, Wazuh, and Windows controls and attacks.
Action Taken
Kali and Windows controls and attacks are still covered. Wazuh was removed.
Source: Teaching Team Reflections
Feedback
Some students have computers which have difficulty running the required virtual machines.
Recommendation
Transition from on-premise to cloud hosed virtual machines.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Evaluations
Feedback
Learning materials need to be improved.
Recommendation
Improve the learning materials, for example, by converting the practical exercises into self guided activities.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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