CP3302 - Information Security
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | College of Business, Law & Governance |
Information security covers not only confidentiality but also authentication, integrity, verifiability, and other more specific security countermeasures. The fields of information security, computer security, and information assurance are interrelated and share the common goals of protecting information, although they use different approaches. This subject is concerned with protecting information regardless of the form the information may take: electronic, print, or other forms.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the business need for information security, and the roles of professionals involved in information security within an organization;
- Understand legal, ethical, and professional issues in information security. Understand how to maintain and perpetuate risk controls. Explain information security standards, policy and practices;
- Understand firewall technology, and security tools such as intrusion detection, access control, and cryptography;
- Understand the conceptual need for physical security, and the issues related to implementing information security.
| Prerequisites: | 18 CREDIT POINTS OF CP SUBJECTS |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | CP5603 CP3404 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 26-Mar-2015 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Hossein Ghodosi. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%); problem solving assignment (2) (15%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 26-Mar-2015 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Hossein Ghodosi. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%); problem solving assignment (2) (15%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 09-Apr-2015 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Hossein Ghodosi |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%); problem solving assignment (2) (15%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 26-Nov-2015 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Hossein Ghodosi |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%); problem solving assignment (2) (15%). |
| Beijing UT, Internal, Study Period 68 | |
| Census Date 04-Jun-2015 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Hossein Ghodosi |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); quizzes or tests (20%); assignments (15%); problem solving assignment (2) (15%). |
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