Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The objective is to give the course participants knowledge, skills and competencies to be able to analyse a selected company IT system, focusing on either security or privacy weaknesses.

Furthermore, the project contains a small module on Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Scientific methods.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Must have knowledge about security and privacy weaknesses and vulnerability in the company IT systems
• Must have knowledge about risks and risk assessment in organisational systems
• Must have knowledge about basic principals in PBL and POPBL
• Must have knowledge about scientific methods relevant for the education  

Skills

• Must be able to use the methods and theories from the courses in the trimester on specific company cases
• Must be able to create a plan for testing a selected system and assessing methods for eliminating the vulnerabilities

Competences

• Must have competencies to asses security and privacy vulnerabilities in the organisational systems and identify cyber security and privacy needs of an organization
• Must have competencies to analyse  a specific case, identify vulnerabilities and come up with a mitigation plan/strategy
• Must have the competency to assess and select relevant scientific and technical literature within the various subject areas of cyber security and privacy
• Must have competencies to work in groups and to write an academic report using relevant scientific methods.

Type of instruction

Types of instruction are listed at the start of §17; Structure and contents of the programme.

Exam

Exams