ITO5163 Information and computer security

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Critically assess threats, vulnerabilities and risks to an organisation's information assets and propose control technologies and techniques which can be applied to reduce the security risk;

2. 2

   Apply a variety of cryptographic algorithms to develop methods to disguise information to ensure its integrity, confidentiality and authenticity;

3. 3

   Apply a variety of methods for key management and distribution and analyse the risks associated with the various approaches;

4. 4

   Implement user authentication and access control mechanisms to create a security architecture to protect the assets of the information system;

5. 5

   Demonstrate the use of cryptographic techniques to preserve the security of information and evaluate its effectiveness;

6. 6

   Apply a variety of security control technologies to IT systems in an organisation.