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CSS343:Information systems security Management
CSS 343 Information Systems Security Management is a 3-credit unit course. It is a compulsory course for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of Criminology and Security Studies of the University. The course is also recommended to any other student(s), particularly those in the school of Arts and Social Sciences, who may have an interest in the study and survey of Information Systems Security Management. The course can also be taken as an elective or required course by other Students whose main field(s) of discipline is not Criminology and Security Studies.
What Will You Learn?
CSS 343: Information Systems Security Management as a course in the field of Criminology and Security Studies at the National Open University of Nigeria focuses on a wide range of issues that bother on ways to effect basic Information Systems Security, knowing quite well that the world today has become smaller in terms of high quality technology similarly accompanied with ever increasing human insecurity with the way and manner crimes are being committed, collapse of business empires and other threats that can jeopardise the safety of any people, industry, community or nation. In this course we will carefully examine, highlight, analyse and assess some issues in Information Systems Security Management. Issues in Information Systems Security Management are usually endless.
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At the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Explain information gathering in information system security
- Examine information systems usability and associated risk
- Understand measures in system analysis and design
- Explain the idea behind information security integration into system administration
- Appraise information security as a risk management function
- Understand the relevance of elevating information security to business security
- Discuss ethics of information communication technology (ICT)
- Explain information security in the 21st century
- Examine information systems and the economics managing fraud
- Discuss information age militaries
- Examine information technology impacts on war fighters
- Appraise information technology and nature of future insecurity
- Discuss the economics of information security investment
- Highlight factors mitigating economic risk through security technology
- Examine difficulties in information security
- Lastly explain the various ways of assessing information systems risks and mitigation options