Assessment item 1 back to top Assessment Item 1 Value: 10% Due Date: Variable Date Return Date: - Length: Submission method options: Alternative submission method Task back to top You are required to...

Assessment item 1

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Assessment Item 1

Task

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You are required to engage in reflective and academic discussions on the forums in ITC596’s interact site and curate your responses for submission.

How to successfully approach this task:

1. You will be provided with specific issues that you need to address in the forum discussions. These will be located in the first two (2) topics in the interact site.
2. Reflect on these questions and post your written responses on the forum and engage with your peers and their responses.
3. As this is a postgraduate course, it is expected that your written responses will provide you an opportunity to express your personal and professional views. There are no correct answers, however the way you justify your answers with validated evidence is key to this activity.
4. It is recommended that you post your responses as you get to the forum prompts in the topics in interact.
5. To successfully complete this task, you are required to curate, collect and save your responses in a word document to be submitted on Turnitin. Include the date and time this was posted on the forum. This activity's final mark will be provided prior to the final assessment item.
6. It is key that you respond and posts regularly and not post everything in the week that this assessment item is due.

Rationale

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This assessment task will assess the following learning outcomes:

• be able to justify the goals and various key terms used in risk management and assess IT risk in business terms.


• be able to critically analyse the various approaches for mitigating security risk, including when to use insurance to transfer IT risk.


• be able to critically evaluate IT security risks in terms of vulnerabilities targeted by hackers and the benefits of using intrusion detection systems, firewalls and vulnerability scanners to reduce risk.

As this is a graduate course, more is expected from students in the way of participation, and further as a graduate reading course, the opinions of students are actively sought to demonstrate that the reading material has been read, understood and provoked a response. The readings on a given topic will in general not agree on all issues in the topic, such as the role and feasibility of cyber-insurance, and soliciting written responses from students gives an opportunity for expressing opinions from the professional experience of each student. Also being a distance course, regular posting on the forum promotes the cohesion of the cohort and a notion of group learning for this course. This assignment is for students to meet parts of the a following learning outcomes.

Marking criteria and standards

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The written responses for each topic will be reviewed and assessed by the Subject Lecturer.

Students will be evaluated on:

• Regular participation in forum activities


• Understanding of the topic


• Use of supporting evidence


• Written expression


• Constructive engagement in conversations to build learning community

Presentation

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Forum posts will be delivered through the respective tools on the Interact site for the course.