FIT2122 Cybersecurity in practice: Project practices and management
Faculty of Information Technology
FIT2122 Cybersecurity in practice: Project practices and management is a level 2, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Information Technology. It isn't offered in 2027. It needs FIT2119 and unlocks 1 unit, leading on to 4 units in all.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2027
- Not offered
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Requisites
Before FIT2122
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After FIT2122
1 unit list FIT2122 as a prerequisite or corequisite.
Overview
In this studio unit, you will extend your cybersecurity practice by moving from a small-team focus to effective collaboration across multiple teams and, where relevant, external partners or stakeholders. You will establish shared processes and communication norms for teamwork, project governance, and coordinated delivery of cybersecurity activities, including working agreements and quality expectations that enable consistent and aligned outcomes. You will engage with mentors and stakeholders on authentic and practical cybersecurity problems, learning how to gather feedback and translate it into actionable adjustments for your team’s workflows, priorities, and risk considerations. You will also use contemporary security tools and methods, practise professional and ethical ways of working, and produce concrete evidence of industry-aligned practice to carry into interviews and first roles. Throughout, you will build professional confidence in stakeholder engagement and responsible decision-making in the context of cybersecurity practice within real-world organisational environments.
Offerings in 2027
The 2027 handbook lists no offerings for FIT2122.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Analyse and justify governance, security, and ethical decisions across a multi-team cybersecurity program, demonstrating how actions, trade-offs, and escalations align with organisational, legal, regulatory, and societal obligations;
- 2
Plan, coordinate, and evaluate cross-team work by integrating multi-team ways of working, such as shared cadences, dependency mapping, and program-level risk management to produce evidence of coherent and timely outcomes;
- 3
Collaborate across teams and with external partners by participating constructively in cross-team coordination, managing handovers and dependencies, and contributing reliably to joint outcomes;
- 4
Design and implement secure and reliable data pipelines and data stores, incorporating monitoring and quality controls to support data management across a multi-team cybersecurity program;
- 5
Deliver solutions with security integrated by design, incorporating operational and architectural considerations and evaluating their effectiveness within an organisational context.
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- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 2
- Study level
- Undergraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Information Technology
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 4
- Study abroad
- Available
- Handbook years
- 2027