CRIM3051Cybercrime and Security II

Course handbook

Description

There is a growing emphasis on cybersecurity as a crime prevention tool locally and internationally by police, government, corporations, and individuals. In conjunction with the knowledge gained in CRIM2050:Cybercrime and Security I, this course provides students with an in-depth, critical understanding of cybersecurity as a harm-prevention strategy. Students will gain an understanding of common cybersecurity prevention measures through case studies used to illustrate practical, legal, and regulatory tactics available to a range of stakeholders, including communities more susceptible to digital exclusion such as Indigenous populations. The course equips students with the knowledge to be able to identify cybersecurity measures, evaluate their effectiveness from a range of stakeholder perspectives, and foregrounds responses to threats arising from emergent technologies, such as the metaverse and artificial intelligence. Students will apply their critical thinking skills to live issues in cybersecurity, and develop online policing and security strategies to address cybersecurity problems. This will include analysis of community participation to address social justice issues facilitated through digital technologies.

Availability

Not currently offered.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Identify and define various approaches to cyber security

2. Analyse police and criminal justice responses to cybersecurity and their effectiveness for victim-survivors

3. Apply criminological theory to explain a cybersecurity policy issue

4. Analyse the stakeholder relationships necessary to effectively prevent crime through approaches to cyber security

5. Present empirically based research as the basis of an effective presentation to a criminal justice audience

Content

Topics will include:

• The history of cybersecurity
• Categories of cybersecurity
• The effectiveness of cybersecurity measures to prevent harm
• Cybersecurity governance
• Hacking
• Securitising digital networks
• Cybersecurity responses to organised cyber threats
• Cybersecurity responses to national security threats
• Interagency collaboration on cybersecurity
• Algorithmic responses to cybersecurity
• Jurisdiction in the metaverse
• The digital divide and digital exclusion and their impact on Indigenous and other vulnerable communities
• Citizen-led regulation of cybersecurity

Assumed knowledge

40 units of CRIM-coded courses at 1000- and 2000-levels, including CRIM2050: Cybercrime and Security I

Assessment items

Professional Task: Policy Brief

Written Assignment: Conversation Article

Presentation: Gap Analysis

Course outline

Course outline not yet available.