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MIS41440

Academic Year 2024/2025

Cybersecurity (MIS41440)

Subject:
Management Information Systems
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Dr Clare Branigan
Trimester:
Summer
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

Provide a framework based on threat intelligence that companies can use to emulate specific threats. This helps companies find gaps in visibility, defensive tools, and processes. Module contains adversary tactics and techniques that are utilized as the foundational development of specific threat models and methodologies. Module will use a case study approach.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

Allows managers to gain the ability to think critically about the threat landscape including vulnerabilities in cybersecurity, to better understand what kind of cybersecurity to specialise in.

Develop a Cybersecurity framework to better prepare your company against future attacks.

Indicative Module Content:

Introduction to Cybersecurity and core concepts.

Identify threats and vulnerabilities .
The human firewall, privacy, social engineering, and identity fraud.

Resilience and Strategic Responses: Develop skills to mitigate risk against continually changing cyber threats, e.g., secure systems, network administration, cloud security, IoT (Internet of Things) risk, cryptography, penetration testing.

Develop a Cybersecurity framework to better prepare your company against future attacks. This includes user training, regulation and data governance and the development of Incident Response Teams

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Specified Learning Activities

90
Autonomous Student Learning

90
Total

204

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Research-led. Curriculum is structured around teaching subject content.

Students are expected to engage in Group Presentations using Role Play. Students are also expected to provide fellow students with feedback on their Presentations.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Reflective Assignment: Student reflection on class experience Week 15 Graded No

45

 No
Group Work Assignment: Presentation with class group Week 12 Graded No

20

 No
Participation in Learning Activities: Participation in Class Discussion. Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12 Graded No

10

 No
Exam (In-person): in class test Week 10 Graded No

25

 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback for Group Presentations will be given directly after the Presentation. Students can get additional feedback face-to-face after any class.


"This is how they tell me the World Ends," Nicole Perlroth, 2021

"Countdown to Zero Day," Kim Zetter, 2014

"Cyberinsurance Policy," Josephine Wolff, 2022

"Click Here to Kill Everybody," Bruce Schneier, 2018
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