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Risk Management is at the core of protecting a business or organisation against cyber threats, while enabling operational and innovative business activity. Identifying information assets to protect, understanding organisational risk tolerance and assuring the operation of an appropriate control set is at the core of an effective cyber security strategy. This course explores and provides insights, strategies and skills in designing, operating and evaluating an information assurance and risk management function.

This course explores identification of information assets, evaluation of cyber security controls and risk management across the spectrum of the cyber security functions. A variety of industry standard risk management frameworks and approaches are reviewed and analysed in order to provide a comprehensive perspective on developing a mature risk management strategy. Information assurance approaches and skills are examined to test and validate the effectiveness and appropriateness of the control environment, and communicate this to organisational and external stakeholders.

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. apply specialised knowledge relating to risk management and information assurance as it relates to information security and cybersecurity;
2. analyse critically, reflect on and synthesise complex issues, frameworks, problems, concepts and theories relating to the role or organisational cyber risk management and the information assurance function;
3. examine and then apply specialist knowledge and skills in developing and implementing cyber risk management and an information assurance function;
4. research and review sources of specialist risk management knowledge relating to cyber security, and how these can be applied towards specific organisational requirements;
5. interpret, articulate and communicate complex issues relating to risk management and information assurance in cyber security to achieve targeted outcomes.