Keyvan Ansari

This unit focuses on the architecture and administration of secure computing environments from several perspectives, i.e., local machines, networked computer systems, and organisational IT infrastructure. The unit provides an understanding of the hardware and software environment required to support security and mitigate risks, reviews models of system security, and reviews techniques to evaluate and measure system security. Throughout these areas, systems analysis tools and techniques will be introduced to support these security goals. 

This introductory, inter-disciplinary unit provides an overview of the key concepts behind the procedures for data privacy protection, cyber security countermeasures and risk mitigation. Students explore common attack and defence strategies targeting the three pillars of cybersecurity, including people, process, and technology. Through the lenses of computer science, IT governance, criminology, and law and policy studies, the unit explains the basics of enhancing cyber security practices.