CourseIT605

Week8 of 16

SemesterII

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This week’s topics

Midterm evaluation

Midterm assessment of the criteria taught so far
Individual feedback and targets

What you will be able to do

1.1 Analyse the types of conflicts of interest for IT professionals.
1.2 Critically evaluate various ethical issues for IT professionals.
1.3 Identify ethical issue(s) within an IT organisation and recommend solutions.
2.1 Critically evaluate the implications of legislation for IT activities.
2.2 Critically evaluate the impact of related legislation on the IT sector.

Activity

Midterm assessment task and individual feedback.

Study materials

The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.

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Course plan

Week 1: Professional Ethics and Conflicts of Interest
Week 2: Ethical Challenges in IT Organisations
Week 3: Data Protection and Privacy Legislation
Week 4: Intellectual Property and Commercial IT Law
Week 5: Taxonomy and Categories of Cybercrime
Week 6: Evaluation and Impact of Global Cybercrime
Week 7: IT Risk Assessment Methodologies
Midterm: Midterm evaluation
Week 9: Risk Governance with BS ISO 31000:2009
Week 10: Aligning Information Security with Business Strategy
Week 11: IT Security Policy Design and Implementation
Week 12: Applying Computers, Society and Law in practice: case studi…
Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
Week 15: Review and coursework completion
Final: Final assessment and submission

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