Digital security and cyber hygiene (5 cr)

Objective

The student understands the significance of the personal cyber hygiene to the information security of the society and information security of the company.
The student knows the legislation, information security and privacy.
The student knows the differences between a cyber security and information security. The student can identify information security risks and can make improvement proposal to avoiding them.
The student can protect his own operation on the cyberspace and reduce the risk to be subjected to the attack as a worker of the company and as a private person.
The student knows the controls and theory models to build protection, the most general, information security.
The student knows social and the significance for the high-quality implementation of the information security from the point of view of the organisation.
The student knows how the industry systems should be protected and can require and it can discuss with other professionals who work in the field from these.

Content

Basic concepts of the information security
Information security risks, their effects and rejection.
Information security generally
Laws which are related to the information security
Information security standards and certificates
Encryption methods
Osint

Course material

Study materials will be announced on the course's Learn platform and, as appropriate, on the course's Teams team.

Study forms and methods

You participate in teaching and supervision as scheduled. Your studies will be paced according to schedules of the group meetings and the independent learning tasks.

RDI and work-related cooperation

None

Timing of exams and assignments

The course ends at the time indicated in the implementation schedule, by which time the student has returned the required assignments, completed any exams and met all other requirements for the approved completion of the course.

Student workload

The workload of the student is 135h, of which approx. 55h are lectures and group work under the guidance of a teacher, in accordance with the rules of procedure. Approx. 80 h are homework and assignments that can be worked on independently.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Assignments, exams and participation in contact teaching.