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Design and Delivery of Undergraduate IT Security Management Course

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Advances in Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009)

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Information technology has become the core tool of business organisations’. External and internal threats as well as legal, regulatory and contractual compliance requirements are all combining to make effective information security a key information technology management challenges. This paper describes an undergraduate information technology security management course that provides comprehensive knowledge and skills necessary to manage both strategic and operational aspects of information security. The course covers a broad range of managerial topics in information technology security and makes use of a number of security tools and techniques to complement the theory taught. In this paper, we describe our approach, our experiences and lessons learned for teaching information technology security management course. The paper details the content of the course and outlines how it is taught and assessed.

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  1. School of Engineering and Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia

    Jemal H. Abawajy

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  1. Computer Engineering Department, Kyungnam University, 449, Wolyong-dong, 631-701, Kyungnam, Masan, Korea

    Jong Hyuk Park

  2. Institute of Communications Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Hsiao-Hwa Chen

  3. School of Computer Science,, University of Oklahoma, 200 Felgar Street, 73019, P.O. Box, Norman, OK, USA

    Mohammed Atiquzzaman

  4. School of Computer Engineering, Hanshin University, Kyeong-Gi, Osan, Korea

    Changhoon Lee

  5. Division of Multimedia, Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  6. Division of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, Daejeon, Korea

    Sang-Soo Yeo

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Abawajy, J.H. (2009). Design and Delivery of Undergraduate IT Security Management Course. In: Park, J.H., Chen, HH., Atiquzzaman, M., Lee, C., Kim, Th., Yeo, SS. (eds) Advances in Information Security and Assurance. ISA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5576. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02617-1_41

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