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ECOM20002 - Security, Ethics and Electronic Commerce Systems

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This introductory information security course provides postgraduate students with a broad management-oriented understanding of information security issues. This course provides students the foundations of information security management and the knowledge of developing managerial strategy for information security. Different aspects of information security management in the modern e-commerce environment will be studied, such as information security planning, information security policy, information security program, risk management, law and ethics, and information security project management.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level Not Applicable
Credit Points 8
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.16666666666667
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites The prerequisite for this course is: COIS20027 - Digital Telecommunications and Networks

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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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2025

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 2025

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 8-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 16.666666666667 hours of study per week, making a total of 200 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Online Quiz(zes) 20%
2. Written Assessment 30%
3. Written Assessment 30%
4. Online Quiz(zes) 20%

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%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2011 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 85.71% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 13.55% 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: Self-reflection
Feedback
Team Work
Recommendation
In future, assignment specifications will provide more detail about team member participaction and contributions to the assignment projects.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Self-reflection
Feedback
Quiz open period
Recommendation
In future, the quiz open period will be fixed at 7 days. This course is no longer offered after term three, 2011. If the course is offered again it will need redeveloment.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. demonstrate an awareness that information security is primarily a management issue
  2. recognise the characteristics of information security management
  3. identify and describe vulnerabilities, threats, attacks and countermeasures to the attacks
  4. develop, implement, and maintain information security policies
  5. evaluate organisational security programs
  6. implement the fundamental elements of information security management practices
  7. identify and assess risk, and provide solutions of risk control for organisations
  8. explain the role of people, process, and technology in information security
  9. understand the legal and ethical issues in information security.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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• Advanced Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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