CSC8216 : Risk and Trust Management
- Offered for Year: 2025/26
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Lecture | 4 | 2:00 | 8:00 | Lectures (in person). |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 30 | 1:00 | 30:00 | Coursework 1. Formative Feedback on Seminar outputs. 2. Summative Feedback: Online Quizzes and 1 report of 1000 words. |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Small group teaching | 4 | 2:00 | 8:00 | Seminars and Q&A sessions (in person). |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 54 | 1:00 | 54:00 | Preparing for lectures and seminars and lecture follow-up |
| Total | 100:00 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report | 1 | M | 100 | 1000 words, plus listings, references, and figures. |
Formative Assessments
Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.
| Description | Semester | When Set | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prob solv exercises | 1 | M | Canvas online quizzes |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
Small scale problems and reinforcement of immediate learning in each week will be assessed through quizzes. 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
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- CSC8216's Timetable