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Module

CSC8216 : Risk and Trust Management

  • Offered for Year: 2024/25
  • Module Leader(s): Dr Mujeeb Ahmed
  • Owning School: Computing
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 1 Credit Value: 10
ECTS Credits: 5.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

This module aims to provide students with a systematic understanding of risk assessment and management. It will cover legal, ethical, and professional issues in security and trust management as well as the relevant standards.

Outline Of Syllabus

- Risk management
- Trust
- Security engineering
- Security threats and access management
- Risk assessment and control strategies
- Legal, ethical, and professional issues
- Information security maintenance

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion281:0028:00Coursework 1. Formative Feedback on Seminar outputs 2. Summative Feedback: Online Quizzes and 1 report of 1000 words
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesLecture121:0012:00Lectures. Delivery mode: PiP or hybrid or online.
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesSmall group teaching102:0020:00Seminars and Q&A sessions (mix online and in-person)
Guided Independent StudyIndependent study401:0040:00Preparing for lectures and seminars and lecture follow-up
Total100:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Lectures will be used to introduce the learning material and for demonstrating the key concepts by example. Students are expected to follow-up lectures within a few days by re-reading and annotating lecture notes to aid deep learning.

Seminars and Q&A sessions will discuss the covered concepts in the lectures in more details, that will include discussing, analysing and critically reviewing relevant standards, recommendations and regulations.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Prob solv exercises1M30Canvas online quizzes.
Report1M701000 words, plus listings, references and figures.
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Small scale problems and reinforcement of immediate learning in each week would be assessed through quizzes. Moreover, quizzes provide an early assessment of the cohort and identify any room for improvement. For open ended and more realistic case study, a report is best suited to assess the learning outcomes for the whole module.

Reading Lists

Timetable