BR5010 - Information and Cyber Security

At The Bridge you learn through a blended approach where short, focused and interactive face-to-face sessions are underpinned by guided and independent online learning. Your attendance for scheduled activities is monitored regardless of whether you are on campus or joining the session remotely. This ensures you access all of the learning opportunities which have been purposefully designed for your success.

A range of teaching and learning approaches are adopted to accelerate your learning in this module.

During the first week of this module, you will receive information about the module and Teaching & Learning Plan. The teaching and learning plan (TLP) sets out
• Learning outcomes and overall module and programme aims
• Teaching, learning and assessment strategy
• Teaching schedule
• Directed reading references (text and journals) and core texts for the module
• References to data sources and details of lab activities

You will also receive the assessment brief which sets out the formative and summative assessments throughout the module.

There are three key sources of academic support available to you during your time at the Bridge in addition to Ask4Help who are available 24/7 for general queries related to your studies.

Your Module Tutor
Your module tutor is responsible for your learning outcomes on the module. They deliver the workshops and provide guidance in relation to learning and assignments. They develop all of the key resources and make them available through the eLP (electronic learning portal module) Blackboard, which is used to provide support materials, interactive learning tasks and give you regular opportunities to test and get feedback on your learning. You will be given both written and verbal feedback and guidance on your work and progress during the semester by your module tutor.

Your Learning Mentor
On programme, you will have your in-person and online engagement activity tracked against the learning plan with key check-in points built into the academic calendar to ensure you maximise your learning potential. Engagement with formative assessments will also be used by the learning mentor to discuss any action planning required to ensure success.

Academic Skills Team
The Bridge aspires to build a range of student skillsets, including digital skills, academic writing and discourse, working alone and in teams. Your learning mentor may refer you a dedicated academic skills team which is based in the centre. Here you can attend drop-ins or schedule 1-1 sessions on issues which have been identified at the diagnostic stages of the programme however you may also have self-identified areas for your own growth and self-refer yourself for support.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
MLO1.Critically evaluate the key information governance principles, practices and security frameworks to demonstrate your understanding in the design, development, implementation and monitoring of information security management system of an organisation

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
MLO2.Ability to critically evaluate the risk assessment methodology to determine appropriate control objectives for a given organisational scenario

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
MLO3.Demonstrate ability to work as a member of a team and make contributions to team success and effectiveness
MLO4.Critically appraise, social, ethical and legal responsibilities of an Information security auditor to comply with.

You will receive formative feedback throughout the module including at the following checkpoints:-

•Week 2: Navigating the course materials
•Week 4: Completing the in-module reflective tasks
•Week 6: Completing the in-module knowledge checks and tasks

You will work as a team consisting of a maximum of four students to develop information governance and cyber security policy satisfying the needs of information security management system of an organisation for a given scenario.

The policy should not exceed more than 2500 words (30%). This part of the assignment will address learning outcome 3.

In addition you will provide an individual 2000 word report (70%) detailing the rationale for the key elements in the group report drawing on the theory and frameworks you have learned.

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You will explore the relationship between information governance and cyber security that underpin the management of an organisation’s information assets. On completion you should be able to critically analyse the key organisation’s strategies’, processes and controls through concepts, theories, standards and frameworks of information governance and advise on the design and implementation of an appropriate strategy for managing its information assets to meet legal, regulatory, organisational and/or societal needs.

Your role as part of the team is to develop information governance policy for a chosen organisation, accompanied by individual report justifying the policy and recommending an implementation strategy.